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The company tried to punt its Trump dilemma to a panel of experts. On Wednesday, the experts punted back.

Nick Clegg, a former deputy prime minister, has shaped the company’s handling of Donald Trump at every turn.

What happens on Facebook has such big consequences, its quasi-independent Oversight Board can only do so much.

The panel of about 20 people, including academics and political leaders, upheld the company’s ban of former President Donald J. Trump.

Facebook’s Oversight Board, an independent panel, will make the final decision on whether the company’s ban of former President Donald J. Trump should be permanent.

Continue reading the main storyDemocrats are breathing easier. Republicans are crying censorship. For all of the country’s news consumers, a strange quiet has descended after a four-year bombardment of presidential verbiage.April 17, 2021Updated 1:30 p.m. ETThat soothing sound that Gary Cavalli hears emanating from ...

Continue reading the main storyWashington lawmakers, lobbyists and other parties have been vying to influence how the Bureau of Industry and Security, under the Biden administration, will approach a technology relationship with China.The Biden administration’s initial engagement with China got off to an acrimonious ...

Members of the far-right group, who were among Donald Trump’s staunchest fans, are calling him “weak” as more of them were charged for storming the U.S. Capitol.

As President Biden took office, some QAnon believers tried to rejigger their theories to accommodate a transfer of power.

The social network, popular with President Trump’s supporters, went offline last week after it was kicked off Amazon’s servers.

Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence.

YouTube is the latest tech company to bar the president from posting online, after Twitter, Facebook and others.

The actions followed the barring of President Trump from the service last week, as Twitter has moved to distance itself from violent content.

Mr. Trump became a celebrity through television, but Twitter had given him a singular outlet for expressing himself as he is, unfiltered by the norms of the presidency.