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11 January 2021 By Jennifer Saba Follow @jennifersaba

COO Sheryl Sandberg laid out why the $730 bln social network is on the right side of history, from taking down bad actors to keeping small businesses alive. There are flaws in her argument, but Facebook has probably deflected the worst of the political fury.

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Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said on Jan. 11 at a Reuters Next conference that the company has no plans to reinstate U.S. President Donald Trump’s accounts. “Our ban is indefinite,” she said, adding that the company had a strict policy of taking down “bad actors.”

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Jan. 7 extended an initial 24-hour block on Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, saying they would last until the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on Jan. 20.

The ban was instituted after a Trump-supporting mob breached Congress on Jan. 6, resulting in five deaths. For weeks, content on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet’s YouTube as well as upstart fringe social networks foretold the storming of the U.S. Capitol.

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