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.
'The People of our Country will not stand for it! These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our Electoral Process.'
Trump was banned from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in January in response to the Capitol riot, which the social media sites claim he stoked. It was an unprecedented move of censorship on a world leader and sparked a global debate over how much control social media and big tech should have over free speech.