http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210511-174658-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/fob-trump-2/ Trump’s Indefinite Ban Pollicino, Oreste De Gregorio, Giovanni Bassini, Marco eng 2021-05-11 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 content moderation Digital Constitutionalism Facebook Facebook Oversight Board Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 After months of waiting, the Facebook Oversight Board has upheld Facebook’s ban of former President Donald Trump. Beyond the merits, the decision underlines a trend showing how the FOB is applying protections of free speech. The FOB’s increasing reliance on the principle of proportionality and transparency is a paradigmatic example of an ever-growing distance to the First Amendment dogma characterising US constitutionalism and the proximity to the European (digital) constitutional approach.