Facebook Has No Plans to Lift Donald Trump Ban, COO Sheryl Sandberg Says
If Donald Trump wanted to appeal the removal of his content, that could happen through the company s new Oversight Board, Sandberg added. By Reuters | Updated: 12 January 2021 10:24 IST
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Sandberg said regulatory pressure on US tech companies around antitrust issues was very real
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Content containing phrase stop the steal will be removed from Facebook
A group by that name was removed from the social network late last year
Facebook s operations chief Sheryl Sandberg said on Monday the world s largest social network had no plans to lift its block on the accounts of US President Donald Trump, as the company clamped down on a phrase that has become a rallying cry for the president s supporters.
Sandberg, speaking during the Reuters Next conference, said she was glad that Facebook had taken the action, which came as tech giants scrambled to crack down on Trump s baseless claims about fraud in the U.S. presidential election amid riots in Washington last week.
Facebook has no plans to lift Trump ban, Sandberg says
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Facebook Inc’s operations chief said she was glad that the company had frozen Trump’s accounts Facebook Inc’s operations chief Sheryl Sandberg said on Monday the world’s largest social network had no plans to lift its block on the accounts of US President Donald Trump, as the company clamped down on a phrase that has become a rallying cry for the president’s supporters.
Sandberg, speaking during the Reuters Next conference, said she was glad that Facebook had frozen Trump’s accounts, which came as tech giants scrambled to crack down on his baseless claims about fraud in the U.S. presidential election amid riots in Washington last week.
Sheryl Sandberg says she was glad that Facebook had frozen Trump s accounts, which came as tech giants scrambled to crack down on his baseless claims about fraud in the U.S. presidential election amid riots in Washington last week
Facebook executives have long taken a light touch to policing speech posted by politicians, maintaining that people have a right to see statements from their leaders.