Unfriending Trump

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🗓️ 6 May 2021

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Summary

Facebook’s Oversight Board bars Donald Trump from rejoining the site –– at least for now. How far-right extremists are recruiting new members in chat rooms and on gaming platforms. And, a farewell to empty middle seats on Delta flights.

Facebook’s 20-member Oversight Board has upheld the decision to ban Donald Trump from the social media platform. Silicon Valley correspondent Elizabeth Dwoskin discusses what that means for other political leaders online.

Far-right groups that blossomed during Trump’s presidency have created enduring communities online by soft-pedaling their political goals and entertaining potential recruits with the tools of pop culture. Marc Fisher reports.

For a year, empty middle seats were a silver lining of pandemic air travel — but no more.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this is Ben Tara's coming from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hi, Jeff.
0:11.0	Let's win three Oprah.
0:12.0	Hi there.
0:13.0	How are you?
0:14.0	It's Lisa bonus, calling for the post.
0:15.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:19.0	It's Thursday, May 6th.
0:24.0	Today, Facebook's ongoing Trump problem.
0:28.0	Recruiting tactics of far-right extremists.
0:31.0	And the death of the vacant middle seat.
0:37.0	So basically, a decision came down on Wednesday.
0:40.0	A much anticipated decision about Trump's Facebook account.
0:44.0	Elizabeth Dwaskin is the Silicon Valley correspondent for the post.
0:57.0	And the decision was made by this kind of bizarre body of experts.
1:01.0	That Facebook is essentially hired to outsource its hardest content moderation decisions.
1:09.0	We're deciding to uphold Facebook's decision to remove Mr. Trump from the platforms.
1:15.0	We thought that was a right decision looking at the post from the six and sevens of January.
1:20.0	We felt that was a right decision.
1:22.0	And we looked at it from Facebook's own community standards and the human rights laws that they want to apply for.
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