CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: 

"'Facebook didn't want to make the decision because it's politically loaded,' said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and dean of its School of Information.

'So they kick it down to the oversight committee and the oversight committee says, 'We don't want this, you decide',' he noted, adding that the board had 'punted on the hard question' of Trump's long-term access to Facebook."