by Ian Weiner | Jun 4, 2021 | Press Releases
(Menlo Park, Calif.) – Facebook will suspend former President Trump from the platform for two years it announced on Friday. The company’s announcement follows a ruling from the Facebook Oversight Board in May that pushed the decision of whether or not to ban the...
by Ian Weiner | Feb 12, 2021 | Press Releases
The Facebook Oversight Board must ensure that President Trump’s removal from Facebook is permanent, or risk his further incitement of violence, promotion of racism, and threat to democracy, comments submitted to the board by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights...
by Don Owens | Jan 7, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Armed insurrectionists attacked and overtook the U.S. Capitol Building to forcibly challenge President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s Electoral College victory. The violence threatened the lives of the entire U.S....
by Press | Dec 13, 2020 | Blog
(Washington, D.C.) — The Proud Boys and other white supremacists targeted Asbury United Methodist Church and Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, two historically Black churches with acts of violence on Saturday night in the midst of pro-Trump rallies. The following is a...
by Don Owens | Aug 12, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – President Donald Trump’s campaign Twitter account, tweeted posts today highlighting four alleged ‘regular criminals,’ all of them Black. The post claimed that all were allegedly released from jail as a result of former Vice President Joe Biden’s...