Month: May 2021

Enlarge / President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday, May 14, 2020. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)

Facebook’s quasi-independent Oversight Board announced its decision today to uphold the ban on former President Donald Trump’s account.

In a ruling issued Wednesday, the board said that while the ban was justified, its open-ended nature was not. "However, it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension," the board wrote. "Facebook’s normal penalties include removing the violating content, imposing a time-bound period of suspension, or permanently disabling the page and account."

Instead, the board is calling on Facebook to review the issue and "justify a proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform." The review should be completed within six months, according to the ruling.

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  Apple's AirTag. [credit: Samuel Axon ]

Apple's AirTag is not a revolutionary new product. Rather, it's a significant refinement of an idea that, up until now, has been fairly niche. It works very, very well, but it works so well it seems to undermine Apple's attempts to focus its products on privacy and security.

We spent several days testing AirTags in different situations, and we found that they work stunningly well—at least in a dense urban environment with iPhones all around.

I can't imagine recommending any of the preceding attempts at this concept over AirTags if you have an iPhone. (Sadly, Android users are quite literally left to their own devices—in more ways than usual, as you'll see later in this review.)