Should Donald Trump’s Facebook account remain permanently blocked? Facebook and the group’s photo app Instagram blocked his account after the run on the Capitol and officially declared the decision to be correct. The final decision, however, is for the Facebook control committee, the so-called “Oversight Board”, founded in 2020, to decide whether it will remain digitally on social media platforms. Critics rate the supervisory authority as difficult against the background of democratic accountability.
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Facebook control body decides on Trump’s account: the most important things in brief
- Oversight Board decides whether Trump can keep his account
- Facebook control body was established in 2020
- Critics rate Oversight Board as an “accountability theater”
Can Trump never post on Facebook again? – The supervisory body makes the final decision
The storm on Capitol Hill caused consternation worldwide, whereupon the corporate management of Facebook unceremoniously blocked the account of the then President Donald Trump, who had backed the storms, for an unlimited time. Nick Clegg, vice-president for worldwide affairs of the social network, now reiterated that the top of Facebook considers the decision to be “necessary and correct”.
Nevertheless, it was decided to hand over the final decision to the so-called “Oversight Board”, the control body of the social media platform that was founded in 2020 and known in the media as the “Supreme Court of Facebook”. Clegg literally:
“Given the importance [der Entscheidung] we feel it is important that the Board review it and form an independent judgment as to whether it should be upheld. “
Trump would then have the opportunity to comment in a statement after a possible lock in accordance with the statutes of the body.
Criticism of the “oversight board” from Facebook
The “Oversight Board” currently consists of 20 people (including human rights activists, lawyers and university professors, but also former politicians) who were named by the top of Facebook. The board should be able to be called both by Facebook itself and by users of the network. A decision made once by the newly created evaluation authority should not even be revoked by Mark Zuckerberg himself.
Critical observers of the situation see the creation of the “oversight board” as an attempt by Facebook to evade the democratic obligation to be accountable – the British tech journalist Natasha Loma calls it an “accountability theater”. She sees an initiative in the body with which Facebook wants to distract from being able to act largely without regulations. The creation of the board should also be a wise decision, because a possible public riot could not be directed against the Facebook top, but only against the board.
how do you see it? Is it right to ban Trump digitally or, as Edward Snowden says, the basis for a critical development?
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