We can't duck them."įacebook created the oversight board last year to review the hardest decisions over what the social network does and does not allow users to post. But without such laws in place, he said, "we have to take decisions in real time. And we agree with them."Ĭlegg said governments should set "democratically agreed standards by which we could take these decisions," rather than leaving it to companies like Facebook. "Many of those leaders and other commentators have said, look, they might agree with the steps we took, but they worry about what they view as unaccountable power of private companies making big decisions about political speech. "There has been, in my view, legitimate commentary, not only here in the U.S., but crucially from leaders around the world" about Trump's suspension, Clegg said. "This decision has great consequence for similar situations which may arise in the future elsewhere," he said. He said Facebook is seeking the board's review because the move to kick a world leader off the social network for the first time is so significant. We think it was entirely justified by the unprecedented circumstances on that day," Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president for global affairs and communications, told NPR's All Things Considered. Now, Facebook wants its newly formed independent oversight board to weigh in and decide whether it should reinstate Trump. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the risks of allowing Trump to keep using the social network were "too great." Two weeks ago, Facebook indefinitely suspended former President Donald Trump from its social network and Instagram, after a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S.
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