Human Rights Groups Want Facebook, Twitter to Take Action Outside U.S.

Facebook and Twitter’s decisions to cut off President Trump from their platforms for inciting a crowd that attacked the U.S. Capitol have angered human rights groups and activists, who are now urging the companies to apply their policies evenly, particularly in smaller countries where the platforms dominate communications. “When I saw what the platforms did with Trump, I thought, ‘You should have done this before, and you should do this consistently in other countries around the world,’” said Javier Pallero, policy director at Access Now, a human rights group.