Adam Conner: Trump's Facebook account should never be ...

Thereafter, both Facebook and its Oversight Board should examine how the inadequacy of its rules and its deference to power allowed Facebook and Instagram to become a primary means through which the president of the United States attempted to subvert and dismantle American democracy.After all, images of violent rioters storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 are forever seared into the national consciousness, and months of Trump surrogates parroting the Big Lie into microphones offered to them on television, radio and in parking lots of urban landscaping businesses created a cacophony of deception, amplified on social media, that will be difficult to get out of our collective heads.Yet, aside from a few, brief White House speeches, the president was uncharacteristically quiet during the period that those often previously unknown surrogates were propagating what we now call the Big Lie.Trump’s public absence in that period was, in retrospect, pronounced and uncharacteristic: Between Election Night on Nov. 4 and Jan. 6 — a 65-day period — he only appeared on camera 28 times by my count, a remarkably small number of appearances for a notoriously publicity-hungry president.