Facebook’s Oversight Board has upheld Facebook’s ban on former President Donald *****, as announced by the organization on Wednesday. ***** was suspended from Facebook platforms following the deadly Capitol riot this past January.
Facebook asked the Oversight Board to review *****’s ban in January, shortly after it suspended his account for inciting violence at the US Capitol.
The Oversight Board’s decisions are not technically binding, but so far, Facebook has deferred to its judgment on individual appeals. The board made its first decisions in January, asking Facebook to restore four posts originally censored for nudity, hate speech, and COVID-19 misinformation. (It agreed with Facebook on one case, where a user posted a “dehumanizing…