How Mark Zuckerberg's attempt to sidestep decision on Trump ban backfired Facebook attempted to outsource decision on former president to its Supreme Court, but ball was put back in Zuckerberg's court 6 May 2021 • 6:00am Mark Zuckerberg never wanted the burden of having to ban a head of state. “I feel fundamentally uncomfortable sitting here in California in an office making content policy decisions for people around the world,” Facebook’s founder said in 2018, adding that he wanted a system in which “I am not the one making those decisions”. Zuckerberg’s solution was a novel one. Last year Facebook set up an oversight board, a quasi-judicial body funded by the social network but built to be independent.