Facebook Board Upholds Former President Trump Ban

Daily Mail: 'A total disgrace and embarrassment to our country': Trump blasts 'radical left lunatics' on Facebook's Oversight Board for upholding Zuckerberg's ban on his accounts and warns big tech will pay a 'political price' for taking away his free speech

* Facebook's Oversight Board ruled to keep Trump banned for another 6 months

* Then, the final decision will be made by Facebook on whether he can come back

* Trump was banned from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in January

* The social media giants blamed him for the January 6 riot at the Capitol

* It punts the controversial decision back to Facebook after months of waiting

* The board has 20 highly paid, left leaning members who make the decisions

* They get paid six figure salaries for approximately 15 hours of work a week

* The non-decision on Wednesday has galvanized Republicans' calls to split FB up

* They say it is proof of Facebook's continued censorship on free speech

* Trump issued a statement from his office to criticize the decision

* He said it showed the 'Radical Left Lunatics' are 'afraid of the truth'

Former President Donald Trump says it is a 'total disgrace' that Facebook's Oversight Board is upholding the ban on his accounts, and says big tech will pay a 'political price' for taking away his free speech.

In an email to supporters on Wednesday, Trump fumed: 'What Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country.

'Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before.

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WNU Editor: I have said this more than once. These tech monopolies need to be broken up.

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