Facebook’s Trump Nightmare Just A Sideshow + A Conversation with David Corn
THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE
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4.8 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Politics makes strange bedfellows. Who would’ve thought that Liz Cheney, who voted with Trump 97% of the time during his four years in office would become a liberal hero for standing up to his lies and autocratic desires? And Facebook makes a big show out of its decision to uphold the former president’s suspension. But it’s all just a big sideshow for the fact that Zuckerberg and Co don’t want to have to change how they do business. Now they’re in a nightmare scenario of their own making. Finally, progressive superstar journalist David Corn drops by Mea Culpa to discuss Don Jr’s legal troubles, the Facebook decision and much, much more.
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| 0:43.6 | On Wednesday, a Facebook oversight board comprised of journalists, activists, and lawyers upheld the social network's ban of former president Donald Trump, ending any immediate return by Trump to |
| 0:55.8 | mainstream social media, and renewing a debate about tech power over online speech. |
| 1:01.8 | Decision Day this morning in a Facebook face-off with the company's independent oversight board |
| 1:06.9 | upholding the decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the platform, at least for now. |
| 1:12.7 | But the board, a kind of Supreme Court for Facebook, says it's not appropriate for the company |
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| 1:22.3 | According to the New York Times, Facebook's oversight board, which acts as a quasi-court over the company's content |
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