If you're a very specific type of person, you might have spent Wednesday morning waiting anxiously

to find out whether former President Trump would be allowed back on Facebook.

If you were to contact her news or politics or you spend a lot of time on Facebook, you

were probably doing what I was doing.

Repeatedly, you were freshening Twitter, waiting for the headline and wondering whether Facebook's

independent oversight board would say the company was right to kick Trump off indefinitely,

back in January after the Capitol riots.

On Wednesday, all eyes would be watching as the board makes a decision that will send

ripples through the Republican Party, Washington, D.C., and across the world.

To be honest, it's kind of what I expected Kate Klanick was doing, waiting to see whether

this board, which is kind of like a Supreme Court for the company, would agree with Facebook

or not.

For Wednesday, they hit the company was wrong to take something down four out of five times.

This decision about Trump was the biggest one yet.

What were you doing when you were waiting for the oversight board's decision?

Were you like breathlessly refreshing online to see what they were going to say?

No, I was teaching class, actually, like I had had the horrible timing of coming out directly

coinciding with an internet law class that I'm teaching right now for Cornell Law.

This class was at Cornell, but most of the time, Kate is a law professor at St. John's

University.

And she more than almost anyone outside Facebook or the oversight board itself has spent

the past few years thinking and writing about how to make something like the oversight board

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