
Former President Donald *****’s Facebook ban is sticking around for now, following the decision from Facebook’s Oversight Board to uphold its original ban from earlier this year. And ***** is not pleased, according to his first official statement.
“Free speech has been taken away from the President of the United States,” an emailed statement from ***** obtained by The New York Times reads, calling for a “political price” to be paid not just by Facebook, but by Google and Twitter as well.
Facebook’s Oversight Board is a panel of independent experts established to oversee high-stakes moderation and policy disputes on the social media platform. In its decision, the Oversight Board explained that while Facebook’s initial decision to suspend…