No one in Washington is happy with Facebook – By Ashley Gold, Margaret Harding McGill (Axios) / May 6 2021
The Oversight Board’s decision Wednesday to uphold Facebook’s suspension of former President Trump found few fans in Washington and exposed the company to a new round of attacks.
Why it matters: While the board urged Facebook back to the drawing board to better define its rules and processes around political speech, political actors on both left and right agree that the social media giant already has too much power.
Democrats argue that no matter what the Oversight Board determined about the validity of banning Trump indefinitely from Facebook, federal regulation is needed to make sure disinformation doesn’t spread unchecked on the social network.
