Former US President Donald Trump denounced Facebook's decision to suspend the account of the former US president for two years, and considered it an "insult" to the 75 million voters who voted for him, Sky News Arabia reported in breaking news.
On Friday, Facebook announced that it had suspended the account of former US President Donald Trump for two years.
Ahead of the ban, it was reported on Friday that Facebook, the social media giant, would work to revoke an automatic pass it had given politicians, even if they violated the company's hate speech rules.
According to the Washington Post, the change is part of a series of steps the company's "oversight board" has approved on Trump, and Facebook's response will be "the first major test of how a nongovernmental watchdog works to verify the social network."
An informed source, who declined to be identified, said that “since the 2016 presidential election, the company has applied a test on political discourse, balancing the importance of news content with its tendency to cause harm, but now the company will rescind this rule, according to Al Arabiya.
He added that "Facebook does not plan to end the merit news exception completely," noting that "in cases where an exception is made, the company will disclose it publicly, and the company will become more transparent about the system of alerts to people who violate its rules."
Over the past few years, Facebook has maintained a list of political accounts that are not subject to the same information validation or content moderation processes that apply to other users. In 2019, a group of employees asked for the list to be dissolved, citing internal research that showed people were especially likely to believe lies if they were shared by an elected official.
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