Trump will remain suspended while the board reviews the
decision.
The newly-formed 20 member group - made up of former prime
ministers and Nobel Prize winners - will have a maximum of 90 days to make a
ruling, and for Facebook to act on it.
An Oversight Board spokesman said it would likely be sooner
than that.
The social media company blocked Trump's access to his
Facebook and Instagram accounts following the storming of the U.S. Capitol by
the former president's supporters earlier this month.
In a interview with Reuters, Facebook's head of global
affairs, Nick Clegg said suspending Trump was the right thing to do:
"But I'm very confident that any reasonable person
looking at the circumstances in which we took that decision and looking at our
existing policies will agree. (flash) given the, in my view, sort of crystal
clear link between the words of the former President Trump and the actions of
people on the Capitol, we felt it really was. Was it a controversial decision
because he was the president of the United States? It actually wasn't a
particularly complicated one to take, given it was so obvious to us that that
was contrary to the long standing policies we have in place."
Clegg has also asked the Oversight Board to provide
recommendations on when political leaders can or should be blocked.
However, the board's recommendations are not binding.
- Facebook on Thursday said the decision on whether to
indefinitely suspend the accounts of former US President Donald Trump would be
passed on to its independent oversight board. Trump will remain suspended while
the board reviews the decision.
The newly-formed 20 member group-- made up of former prime
ministers and Nobel Prize winners-- will have a maximum of 90 days to make a
ruling, and for Facebook to act on it. An Oversight Board spokesman said it
would likely be sooner than that.
The social media company blocked Trump's access to his
Facebook and Instagram accounts following the storming of the US Capitol by the
former president's supporters earlier this month.
In an interview with Reuters, Facebook's head of global
affairs, Nick Clegg said suspending Trump was the right thing to do.
NICK CLEGG: But I'm very confident that any reasonable
person looking at the circumstances in which we took that decision and looking
at our existing policies will agree. Given the, in my view, sort of crystal
clear link between the words of the former President Trump and the actions of
people in the Capitol, we felt it really was. Was it a controversial decision
because he was the president of the United States? It actually wasn't a
particularly complicated one to take, given it was so obvious to us that that
was contrary to the longstanding policies we had in place.
- Clegg also asked the Oversight Board to provide
recommendations on when political leaders can or should be blocked. However,
the board's recommendations are not binding.
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