Former US President Donald Trump has blasted Facebook’s decision to extend his ban as they plan to review his case for another six months to determine a defined penalty.
Recall the social media giant had announced in January that Trump was locked out of his accounts on Facebook and Instagram indefinitely following the deadly Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
On Wednesday, Facebook’s Oversight Board temporarily upheld the ban on Trump’s accounts for another six months to a final decision.
The board claimed that Facebook gave Trump’s account “a vague, standardless penalty” and then tried to “avoid its responsibilities” by sending the “case to the Board to resolve.”
Trump responded to the board’s ruling, saying in a statement “What Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country. Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before. The People of our Country will not stand for it! These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our Electoral Process”