Facebook oversight board to decide if Donald Trump’s account should stay suspended

New York: Facebook Inc. said it was referring its decision to indefinitely suspend the accounts of former US President Donald Trump to its independent oversight board.
Trump will remain suspended while the board, a recently created body that can overrule the company’s decisions on content, reviews the decision. The board, which said it had accepted the case, will have a maximum of 90 days to make a ruling and for Facebook to act on it.
The social media company blocked Trump’s access to his Facebook and Instagram accounts following the storming of the US Capitol by the former president’s supporters earlier this month.
“I’m very confident of our case,” said Nick Clegg, head of global affairs at Facebook. “I’m very confident that any reasonable person looking at the circumstances in which we took that decision and looking at our existing policies will agree.”