Trump’s Facebook, Instagram accounts to be reinstated ‘in coming weeks,’ Meta says
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Meta had imposed a two-year suspension on Trump's accounts on Jan. 7, 2021, following an attack on the capitol building in Washington by the former presidents' supporters.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will be reinstated in the coming weeks, according to a statement released by Meta, the owner of both platforms.
Meta had imposed a two-year suspension on Trump’s accounts on Jan. 7, 2021, following an attack on the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., by the former presidents’ supporters who refused to accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. He had praised protesters who stormed the Capitol building.
In the statement released Wednesday, Meta said “new guardrails are in place to deter repeat offenses.”
“In the event that Mr. Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed and he will be suspended for between one month and two years, depending on the severity of the violation,” it said.
Meta says the company has evaluated the current political climate to see if “the serious risk to public safety that existed in January 2021 has sufficiently receded.”
This includes looking at the conduct of the U.S. 2022 midterm elections and expert assessments on the current security environment.
“Our determination is that the risk has sufficiently receded, and that we should therefore adhere to the two-year timeline we set out,” it reads.
Reacting to Meta’s announcement, Trump wrote on his own platform, Truth Social, “Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting President, or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution!”
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