脸谱网全球事务副总裁尼克·克莱格(Nick Clegg)周日为该公司前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)被停职两年进行辩护，称该公司针对公众人物的新准则规范了鼓励暴力而不是谎言的言论。
“不管你是谁——你可以是教皇、英国女王和美国总统——你都不能利用我们的服务来帮助、教唆、煽动或赞扬暴力行为，”克莱格告诉美国广播公司《本周》主播乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯。
脸谱网周五宣布自1月7日首次暂停以来，该公司已暂停特朗普两年，此前该公司实施了新创建的“强化安全协议”，并在内乱或持续暴力期间对公众人物进行处罚。
特朗普说在周五的一份声明中，脸书的裁决是对他的选民的“侮辱”，公司“不应该被允许逃脱审查和沉默”
克莱格周日表示:“我们不指望(特朗普)会欢迎这一决定。”。“但我们确实希望，理智的观察者会相信，在这些非常困难的情况下，我们正在尽可能合理地按比例行事。”
特朗普最初被禁止进入社交媒体平台，此前一天，国会大厦遭到致命围攻，原因是担心他的帖子煽动暴力。脸书独立监督委员会5月份的一份审查支持特朗普的停职，但表示该公司在没有明确指导方针的情况下施加无限期罚款是“不合适的”。因此，该公司加大了对公众人物的处罚力度，根据违规的严重程度，禁止个人进入公司长达两年。
前总统解决暂停问题周六，他在北卡罗来纳州共和党全国代表大会上再次发表了90分钟的竞选式演讲，他还重复了几个关于2020年选举的谎言，称之为“我国历史上最腐败的选举”。
“他们可能会允许我在两年后回来——我对此不太感兴趣，”他在谈到脸书停赛时说。
“你把注意力集中在1月6日鼓励暴乱者的评论上。关于选举的谎言呢?(特朗普)昨晚又重复了一系列。如果总统在2023年1月发表了他昨晚发表的演讲，停职会延长吗?”斯特凡诺普洛斯问道。
“嗯，我很难做出某种假设性的判断，”克莱格回答说，并补充说脸书使用独立的事实检验器来标记虚假信息。
“但我要非常明确地说——我不认为有人希望像脸书这样的私人公司审查人们在社交媒体上所说的每一件事的准确性，然后引导人们离开平台，”克莱格继续说道。
斯特凡诺普洛斯还要求克莱格解决分裂脸书的呼吁，以削弱他们在公共政治言论上的权力整合纽约时报专栏。
“我自己的观点是，不管怎样，答案不是分手——答案是监管。”克莱格说。“美国民主不属于硅谷，它属于美国人民，属于那些应该为美国民主的发展制定规则的人。”
Facebook executive defends 2-year ban for Trump
FacebookVice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg defended the company's two-year suspension of former President Donald Trump on Sunday, saying its new guidelines for public figures regulate comments encouraging violence, not lies.
"It doesn't matter who you are -- you can be the pope, the queen of England and the president of the United States -- you cannot use our services to aid, abet, foment or praise acts of violence," Clegg told ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos.
Facebookannounced Fridayit suspended Trump for two years from its initial Jan. 7 suspension, following the company's implementation of newly created "enhanced safety protocols" and penalties for public figures during times of civil unrest or ongoing violence.
Trump saidin a statement on Friday that Facebook's ruling was an "insult" to his voters and the company "shouldn't be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing."
"We don't expect (Trump) to welcome that decision," Clegg said Sunday. "We do hope though that reasonable observers will believe that we are acting as reasonably proportionately as we can in these very difficult circumstances."
Trump was originally banned from the social media platform the day after the deadly Capitol siege over concerns his posts were inciting violence. A May review from Facebook's independent oversight board upheld Trump's suspension but stated it was "inappropriate" for the company to impose an indefinite penalty without clear guidelines. As a result, the company created the heightened penalties for public figures, banning individuals for up to two years, depending on the severity of their violation.
The former presidentaddressed the suspensionagain Saturday during a 90-minute campaign-style speech at the North Carolina Republican Party State Convention, where he also repeated several lies about the 2020 election, calling it "the most corrupt election in the history of our country."
"They may allow me back in two years -- I'm not too interested in that," he said about the Facebook suspension.
"You focused on the -- on the comments encouraging the rioters on Jan. 6th. What about the lies about the election? (Trump) repeated a series of those last night again.If the president gave the speech he gave last night in January 2023, would the suspension be extended?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"Well, it's very difficult for me to make, sort of, hypothetical judgments," Clegg replied, adding that Facebook uses independent fact-checkers to label false information.
"But I'm gonna be very clear -- I don't think anybody wants a private company like Facebook to be vetting everything that people say on social media for its precise accuracy and then booting people off the platform," Clegg continued.
Stephanopoulos also asked Clegg to address calls to break up Facebook to diminish their consolidation of power over public political speech, citing aNew York Times op-ed.
"My own view, for what it's worth, is the answer is not break up -- the answer is regulation." Clegg said. "American democracy does not belong to Silicon Valley, it belongs to the American people and the people who should set the rules for how American democracy plays out."
