Christian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
The social network run by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, announced that it will extend the suspension of its services to Donald Trump, former U.S. president; however, the Facebook Oversight Board determined that the sanction should be extended indefinitely.
Facebook announced that due to the consequences of his statements in which he incited thousands of people to take over the U.S. Capitol represent "a serious violation" of Facebook's policies.
In January of this year, Trump incited thousands of people to violently take over the Capitol during an event certifying the validity of last November's 2020 election where his Democratic counterpart, now U.S. President Joseph Biden, won.
Several social networks were in the need to interrupt their services to the exmandatario to avoid a wave of violence in the U.S.; so YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and Twitch limited access to their information and access to publish on that platform by considering it a threat to the security of the United States.
Facebook's suspension will be effective for two years from the first day of its suspension, January 7. This was announced Friday by Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs. The suspension, therefore, would take effect until January 7, 2024, which would allow Trump to continue a presidential campaign for that year.
Trump's suspension on Facebook responds to the violation of the Terms of Use of the social network where the suspension of the service is established for at least one month and up to two years for "inciting violence" or provoking riots such as those that occurred in January in the US Capitol; therefore, the independent oversight board of Facebook, determined that the first suspension of the president of the social network was "appropriate".
