Facebook was about to ban conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and links from his Infowars website in April 2019 but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did not consider Jones to be a hate figure at the time.
Facebook puts Trump on internal trial: Social media giant refers decision to permanently ban former president to its left-leaning supreme court oversight board
Facebook is allowing its left-leaning supreme court oversight board to decide if Donald Trump should be permanently banned
Trump had his Facebook and Instagram accounts suspended after the deadly January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol at the hands of MAGA mob rioters
The social media giant said on Thursday that it stands by its decision to suspend Trump s accounts but will defer to the seemingly-independent oversight board
Critics of the decision to ban Trump from Facebook say it is censorship and will have serious free speech consequences going forward