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Meta authorizes Trump to return to Facebook (photo taken by Donald Trump in November 2022)
UNITED STATES – He’ll be back soon. Social media giant Meta announced on Wednesday January 25 that it would “end” the ban on Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, two years after the former American president was banned in the wake of the storm on the Capitol.
“The public needs to be able to hear what politicians are saying so they can make informed decisions,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s head of international affairs, said in a statement. “But that doesn’t mean there aren’t limits to what people can say on our platform. If there is a risk of harm in the real world – a high risk that justifies Meta’s intervention in the public debate – we act,” he said.
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A few days ago, Donald Trump and his team called on Facebook not to “silence a presidential candidate.” “No president should be banned from social media, says Trump,” he reiterated Jan. 25 after Meta’s announcement. “This should never happen again to an incumbent president or anyone else who doesn’t deserve punishment! ‘ commented the Republican, candidate for the 2024 presidential election, on his network Truth Social.
Return to Facebook only when “risks to public safety” have “disappeared.”
The former US leader was banned from the social network on January 7, 2021, while still in power, for encouraging his supporters during the attack on Congress in Washington the day before, a then-unprecedented decision by the most popular social networks, including Twitter.
In June 2021, Facebook had ruled that the ban would last two years and that the Republican billionaire could not return until “public safety risks” had “disappeared.”
The politician was admitted back to Twitter on November 19, 2022, four days after declaring his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election.
However, he has yet to post on that account and communicates primarily through his own platform, Truth Social.
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