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Facebook’s oversight board upheld the company’s decision to ban former President Donald Trump Wednesday morning.
“The Board found that, in maintaining an unfounded narrative of electoral fraud and persistent calls to action, Mr. Trump created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible,” the board said in a statement.
It also found, however, that a permanent ban was inappropriate, and requested that Facebook reach a “proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of the platform.”
“Within six months of this decision, Facebook must reexamine the arbitrary penalty it imposed on January 7 and decide the appropriate penalty,” the social media platform said.
out in public for several weeks and it has just become ever more disturbing. The media
remains silent. What makes it worse is there is new evidence of espionage, or in the very least widespread corruption, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, among other Democrats, have not fired the perpetrators currently under investigation.
The Daily Caller reported that Rogue congressional staffers took $100,000 from an Iraqi politician while they had administrator-level access to the House of Representatives’ computer network, according to court documents examined by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.
The money was a loan from a
Dr. Ali al-Attar, an Iraqi political figure, and was funneled through a company with “impossible”-to-decipher financial transactions that the congressional information technology (IT) staffers controlled.
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Dozens of House Republicans urged the Senate to oppose President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) in a letter Monday.
Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, along with 68 other House Republicans, wrote a letter addressed to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky urging them to oppose ATF nominee David Chipman’s confirmation for being a threat to Americans’ Second Amendment rights. The letter referred to Chipman as an “enemy of the Second Amendment.”
“Throughout his career, David Chipman has made it no secret that he is an enemy of the 2nd Amendment,” Banks wrote. “In October 2018, Chipman argued in favor of subjecting all AR-15’s and potentially all semi-automatic rifles to regulation under the National Firearms Act.”
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Nearly $2 million in narcotics were found in the water near the Florida Keys over the weekend, the U.S. Border Patrol announced, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday.
Over 70 pounds of cocaine and 62 pounds of marijuana were found by recreational boaters between Friday and Saturday, Border Patrol Spokesperson Adam Hoffner said, the Miami Herald reported.
“The increase in washed-up narcotics indicates that smugglers continue to operate along the Florida coastline,” Hoffner said, according to the Miami Herald. “We are grateful for the community’s support to our border security mission here in Florida.”
#BreakingNews; Recreational boaters in the #Florida Keys discovered 1.8 million dollars worth of drugs. One boater located a bag with 73 lbs of cocaine & another located 62 lbs of marijuana. #BorderPatrol agents along with @USCGSoutheast responded & took custody of the drugs. pic.twitter.com/eMXmyv6QZJ