Trump will continue to be banned from social media

Donald Trump is reluctant to enjoy his enviable status as former president of the United States. On the contrary, he continues to wage war, trying to poison the policies of his successor, persecuting critical politicians he considers enemies, failing to acknowledge that the election was not rigged, and preparing to run again in the 2024 primaries.

Despite his scandals and eccentricities, despite all the nonsense that is coming out, the worst thing is that he still has millions of fanatical followers, and what is more serious, a lot of influence in the Republican Party, including a group of senators, as seen in his attempt to defenestrate Representative Linz Cheney from her seat, whom he does not forgive for his past criticisms.

In return for the money he and his 'hooligans' are investing in their desire for revenge, he has lost access to the social networks that throughout his mandate were his preferred weapon to reach out with his lies and bravado to a society incapable of discerning between passions and reasons.

The Supreme Board in charge of supervising Facebook's actions, made up of twenty prestigious personalities from different countries and based in London, has just ruled that the ban preventing Trump from using his account on the network is still in force and fully justified. The main reason for this veto is the incitement to violence he made during the attempted assault on the Capitol in January. 

The Supreme Board was created, in the image of a higher court of justice, on the initiative of Facebook's founder and president, Zuckerberg, who subsidised it with 130 million dollars, and has given it total independence. In the little more than two years that it has been operating, it has already resolved a large number of complaints and claims, mostly minor ones. Precisely, he argued the reasons for the delay of the decision against Trump in the 9,000 complaints on which they are working. 

Some Republican leaders sympathetic to the former president have expressed their protests, but the decision is final. It does acknowledge, however, that the indefinite nature of the ban may be reviewed in the future. In the meantime, some investors and former top officials of the previous administration are actively working to create a media network, including their own social networks, with a view to the next presidential election in three years' time.