Facebook Must Apply the Brandenburg Standard to Keep Trump off its Platforms
4 min readMay 13, 2021
It has been over 120 days since Trump was de-platformed and last Wednesday’s ruling by Facebook’s Oversight Board upheld the social media company’s ban on Donald Trump from its platforms. The Board found “Mr. Trump created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible.” This finding justified the banning but found fault with Facebook for their…