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Facebook Reexamining Their Ban of Donald Trump

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As certain aspects of his world continue to close in around him, Donald Trump could find life anew online in the coming weeks.

Trump’s former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani saw his Manhattan office and apartment raided just days ago, in what appeared on the surface to be an investigation into the former NYC Mayor’s work in Ukraine.  The federal agents who executed the search warrant came away with several electronic devices, including Rudy’s cell phone, and this has some within the Trump inner circle beginning to fret.

All this while Trump is a persona non grata in most online spaces, with the former President reduced to issuing his missives via press release or PAC.

That could be changing in the coming days, however.

The Facebook Oversight Board, a sort of supreme court that delivers rulings and can overturn moderation decisions made by the platform, will deliver its decision on the fate of former President Donald Trump’s page this week.

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“The Oversight Board will announce its decision on the case concerning former US President Trump… on May 5, 2021, at approximately 9:00 a.m. EDT,” the board posted on Twitter.

Trump is also permanently banned from Twitter; a move that saw him escalate his feud with the social media platform.

“Twitter stock ‘plunged’ as results are no longer cutting it for investors,” Trump wrote, calling the platform “boring” and adding: “I guess that’s what happens when you go against FREEDOM OF SPEECH! It will happen to others also.”

Of course, the drawn out review process that Facebook is engaging in worries some freedom experts who believe that this could signify the beginning of a shift toward a technologically-controlled oligarchy in this nation.

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As a lifelong advocate for the dream promised us in the Constitution, Andrew West has spent his years authoring lush prose editorial dirges regarding America's fall from grace and her path back to prosperity. When West isn't railing against the offensive whims of the mainstream media or the ideological cruelty that is so rampant in the US, he spends his time seeking adventurous new food and fermented beverages, with the occasional round of golf peppered in.




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