Facebook oversight board co-chair says website wields ‘too much power’

A co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board that temporarily extended the ban against former President Donald Trump said Sunday that the social media giant’s rules governing content are in “shambles” and “not transparent” — and the company “exercises too much power.”

Michael McConnell, a law professor at Stanford University, said the board agreed that Facebook was right in removing Trump from the site because he “is subject to the same rules on Facebook as everyone else.” “What we did say, though, was that they were not justified taking him down indefinitely, that they did not provide any reasons for that, that is not a provision in their rules, that was wrong. And we gave them a certain amount of time to get their house in order,” McConnell told “Fox News Sunday” about last week’s decision.