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Trump still booted off Facebook but ruling opens door to his return
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WASHINGTON Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook account should remain suspended for the time being, the company’s oversight board announced Wednesday agreeing that his rhetoric had created a serious risk of violence but saying the social network had been arbitrary in ousting him indefinitely.
The board upheld Trump s suspension but ordered: Within six months of this decision, Facebook must reexamine the arbitrary penalty it imposed on January 7 and decide the appropriate penalty.
Trump responded hours later with a statement that didn t directly address the ruling but vowed to impose a political price on the corrupt social media companies that blocked, suspended or throttled his accounts after a crowd of his supporters, buoyed by his baseless claims of a stolen election, staged a deadly attack on the Capi
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Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook account should remain suspended for the time being, the company’s oversight board announced Wednesday agreeing that his rhetoric had created a serious risk of violence but saying the social network had been arbitrary in ousting him indefinitely.
The board upheld Trump s suspension but ordered: Within six months of this decision, Facebook must reexamine the arbitrary penalty it imposed on January 7 and decide the appropriate penalty.
Trump responded hours later with a statement that didn t directly address the ruling but vowed to impose a political price on the corrupt social media companies that blocked, suspended or throttled his accounts after a crowd of his supporters, buoyed by his baseless claims of a stolen election, staged a deadly attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday praised parents for pushing back against the teaching of the quasi-Marxist critcal race theory in the nation's schools, urging more people to speak out and arguing it's the "only way we save our kids" from leftist indoctrination.
Weapon of mass destruction charge added over US governor kidnap plot
US federal prosecutors have unveiled new charges against three men accused of an alleged plot to kidnap a US Governor, Gretchen Whitmer, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Adam Fox, 40, Barry Croft, 45, and Daniel Joseph Harris, 23, were charged with knowingly conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, in addition to the federal kidnapping conspiracy charges that were announced in October, when officials thwarted an alleged plot by the men and several others to kidnap the Michigan Governor, a Democrat.
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was the target of a kidnap plot.(CNN)