Trump Back On Facebook

We have reason to believe that Mark Zuckerberg, and the Oversight Board he created, will make the wrong decision later this month by allowing Donald Trump back onto Facebook.

Zuckerberg has a wellestablished pattern of behavior whenever his platform faces public criticism of its record on white supremacy and disinformation. He trots out meaningless actions designed for PR, not for real change. And all of us pay the price.

If Facebook again prioritizes greed over our democracy, safety and health, our movement must be ready to stand up and fight.

The fact is, we have little reason to expect that the Facebook Oversight Board will do what is clearly the right thing. Facebook selected board members and pays them to do their work. Facebook decides what they review and limits the content they can base their decisions on.

No one would respect a climate-change study funded by Exxon Mobil. Or a nutrition report from sugar-industry scientists. A ruling from the Facebook Oversight Board is the same thing, dressed up for the internet age.

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