Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ Faces Its First Major Test

Jameel Jaffer and Katy Glenn Bass, The New York Times |

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Facebook’s new Oversight Board is considering whether the company was justified in indefinitely suspending Donald Trump from its platform. The question is important, but it would be a mistake for the board to answer it right now, or on Facebook’s terms. To do so would effectively absolve the company of responsibility for its part in creating the circumstances that made Mr. Trump’s speech — both online and offline — so dangerous.

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