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Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on Monday said the platform does not intend to lift the suspension on outgoing President Donald Trump.
The platform’s second in command who disclosed this in an online forum organized by Reuter said ” Our ban is indefinite. We have said at least through the transition. But we have no plans to lift it”.
The social network last week suspended Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the aftermath of the violent invasion of the US Capitol by a mob of his supporters, which disrupted the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory.
Twitter went a step further on Friday by deleting Trump’s account, depriving him of his favorite megaphone.
Trump also was hit with suspensions from services like Snapchat and Twitch.
“Our policies are applied to everyone,” Sandberg said, noting that the platform has removed posts by the president’s son and “other world leaders.”
“This shows that even a president is not above the policies we have.”
In announcing the suspension last week, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said Trump used the platform to incite violence and was
campaigns and suspended many accounts, groups and pages with violent or hate-filled content.
Asked about criticism the social media titans exert outsized power, Sandberg said she was in favor of more regulation and said she hoped to work with the Biden administration, which will take office on January 20.
“We are a private company and we have a service we provide and it is our responsibility to make sure that service is not used for things it shouldn’t be used for, like what happened last Wednesday,” she said.
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