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    Commentary: Facebook's 'supreme court' slaps Trump but tells Facebook to be better

    by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times May 06, 2021 3 minutes

    In a lengthy decision upholding Facebook's temporary ban on former President Donald Trump, the social network's oversight board called out several of the company's most aggravating traits, including its seemingly arbitrary approach to its rules, its lack of transparency and its bizarre tolerance for conduct by politicians that's so bad it's newsworthy. If the ruling brings about changes on those fronts, we'll all be better for it regardless of whether Trump ultimately gets to revive his moribund Facebook page.

    But the larger issue, and one that the company's independent appeals panel didn't tackle directly, is

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