"It is unconscionable that you would even consider giving Donald Trump a second chance knowing full-well what he will do with it," the coalition wrote in a letter to the Facebook CEO.
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KEEP HIM OFF: Advocacy groups are targeting Facebook’s employees with an ad campaign urging the platform to keep former President Trump banned permanently.
More than 30 advocacy groups ran a full page ad in the San Jose Mercury News on Thursday slamming the platform’s announcement last week that it would keep Trump’s suspension in place until at least 2023, leaving open the possibility of his return ahead of the 2024 election.
The ad featured a letter signed by the groups, including Media Matters for America, Accountable Tech, the Anti-Defamation League, Avaaz and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
A founder of the Black Lives Matter chapter in St. Paul says he resigned over what he described as the organization's lack of interest in supporting Black families and opposition to school choice, calling it "the ugly truth."