Facebook’s oversight board says that Donald Trump can be kept off the platform—for now
Did the chances of an eventual government intervention to regulate content just go up?
“SAVE AMERICA” is the slogan at the top of Donald Trump’s newly launched blog, where anyone nostalgic for 2020 can find tirades resembling those he plastered on social media before he was kicked off Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube for his statements during the storming of the Capitol on January 6th. Next to his posts are icons for users to click and share Mr Trump’s messages on Facebook and Twitter, reminders of how those platforms confer the widest reach and influence.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Speechless”
United States May 8th 2021
- American home-ownership rises
- Many states are pushing through more permissive gun laws
- Facebook’s oversight board says that Donald Trump can be kept off the platform—for now
- Black Americans spend more of the day being kept waiting
- Joe Biden’s government has not yet committed to a path on trade in technology with China
- America’s homicide rate has declined since the 1990s. So have homicide-clearance rates
- In praise of America’s founding fish
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