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Facebook CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Munich Security Conference at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany, February 15, 2020.
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“Facebook wields too much power,” the co-chairman of the social media giant’s supervisory board told Drumpe on Sunday. Its decisions “are arbitrary, they are inconsistent, and it is the job of the supervisory board to try to discipline this process.”
Indeed, his “rules are a mess,” said Michael McConnell. “They are not transparent, they are not clear, they are inconsistent internally.”
He was explaining the board’s decision on former President Donald Trump’s Facebook ban after the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. Rather than make up its mind, the panel left the ultimate call to Facebook’s content moderators to restore Trump’s account or suspend him for a specified period – or permanently: “Facebook must make its decision and be held accountable for what ‘he decides.”
This clearly means that if he bans Trump, he must ban other equally outrageous figures – for example, Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or inflammatory representative Maxine Waters.
The board, McConnell notes, gave Facebook staff several months “to make their rules clearer and more consistent” and “enforce those rules in a simple way.” This is the way it should be – can Mark Zuckerberg and his awakened collaborators do it?
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