LOGAN CYRUS/AFP
Donald Trump, here speaking at a 2024 election campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina on January 28, 2023.
SOCIAL NETWORKS – It will take a little more voice. Meta officially restored Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts this Thursday, February 9, according to a spokesperson to US media.
Social media giant Meta announced in late January that it would soon “end suspension” of the accounts of the former American president, two years after the exclusion of the former American president following the assault on the Capitol.
What’s next after this ad
“The public must be able to hear what politicians are saying so they can make informed choices”had justified Nick Clegg, the head of international affairs of Meta, in a press release.
“But that doesn’t mean there are no limits to what people can say on our platform. When there is a risk of harm in the real world – a high risk that warrants Meta’s intervention in the public debate – we act”he specified.
Donald Trump, with his 34 million subscribers on Facebook and 23 million on Instagram, had not yet posted a new message there this Thursday evening, as well as on his Twitter account, while the latter was restored since the end of last year by Elon Musk.
What’s next after this ad
Excluded from Facebook on January 7, 2021
According to documents submitted to US stock exchange authorities, the former president granted a six-hour time exclusivity to his Truth Social network, which he launched last year, for any social media posts, precise 20 Minutes.
The former US head of state was banned from Facebook on January 7, 2021, while still in power, for encouraging his supporters during the attack on Congress in Washington the day before, an unprecedented decision, imitated at the time by most mainstream social networks, including Twitter.
In June 2021, Facebook had decided that the exclusion would last two years, and that the Republican billionaire could only return when the “risks to public safety” would have ” gone “.
What’s next after this ad
Suspension “should never again happen to a sitting president or anyone who doesn’t deserve sanctions!” »reacted Donald Trump from his account on Truth Social.
He had also officially requested to be able to return to Facebook. His lawyer had written a letter to Meta founder and chairman Mark Zuckerberg, calling on him not to “Silence a presidential candidate”.
See also on Le HuffPost :
