Facebook’s oversight board on Tuesday tapped as its newest member a prominent human rights lawyer who has argued that the company may have a tough time selling the panel on why it should uphold former President Donald Trump’s suspension from the platform.
The significance: Board spokesperson John Taylor told POLITICO that the new member, Suzanne Nossel, will not participate in the deliberations over Trump’s case, and will instead spend the upcoming weeks undergoing training for members. But her earlier views offer a glimpse into what factors the board’s current members may be considering as they take up Trump’s case — which could bode well for him.
Nossel, the CEO of human rights group PEN America, wrote in a January op-ed for the Los Angeles Times that Facebook’s “silencing of Trump” was a “testament to the staggering influence of Facebook and a few other media companies over public discourse.”
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