Social media companies for most of the Trump administration were chastised by critics for taking too little action against posts by former President Trump that seemed to violate the platforms\u2019 rules.<\/p>\n
However,\u00a0after the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, social media companies \u2014 to varying degrees \u2014 took action against Trump\u2019s accounts. While Twitter\u00a0banned Trump permanently<\/a>, Facebook pushed its decision off onto its quasi-independent Oversight Board.<\/p>\n In June the\u00a0board said\u00a0an indefinite suspension was not appropriate, leading Facebook to keep Trump’s account suspended until at least Jan. 7, 2023 \u2014 with the option to let him back on before the next presidential election.<\/p>\n That\u00a0decision\u00a0pleased neither side<\/a>, fueling Democrats\u2019 criticism that the platform\u00a0wasn’t taking a hard enough stance against content that violates its policies and Republicans\u2019 accusations that Facebook is censoring conservative content. A final call on Trump’s account is\u00a0still unclear<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Social media companies for most of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43494,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43493\/revisions\/43494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}