“This is an important issue, and therefore we will work as quickly as possible, in accordance with the decision in a principled and consistent manner,” Jamal Greene, a professor at Columbia Law School and co-chair of the body, told POLITICO said. “We will all work hard to decide this as quickly as we can do responsibly.”
The public comment will be posted online when the council publishes its ruling in the Trump case.
The case represents a watershed moment on the limits that companies can impose on elected media to elected officials for online posts targeting tens of millions of prospective voters. Trump also remains suspended by numerous other platforms, including Twitter.
Facebook has been scrutinized by Republicans over allegations that it and other tech giants are censoring Conservatives’ speech, while Democrats blame the company for not acting quickly enough to advance Trump’s biased comments and before the January 6 riots. .
The decision of the supervisory board in the Trump case is binding on Facebook. In its first series of statements, announced on Thursday, the group ruled against the company’s decisions to remove online posts in four out of five cases, regarding religious prejudice and threats of violence.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, a former Danish prime minister and another co-chair of the group, told POLITICO not to interpret it as a precedent for how the body might ultimately rule in Trump’s case. “You can read nothing in it,” she said.