What Facebook should do: Let Trump back, and let him lie

Last week, the independent oversight board that Facebook hoped would help solve its Donald Trump conundrum dropped the hot, steaming problem right back in the company's lap. While the outside arbiters deemed the former president's suspension correct at the time — on the ground that, yes, he was encouraging a riot when he praised the Capitol insurrectionists on Jan. 6 — they dinged the online giant for making the exile indefinite. Either remove the offending material with a date-certain return, or bounce the offender for good, they pronounced; putting Trump in purgatory is a craven and unprincipled dodge.