Due to claims that he “incited” the riot in the US Capitol in 2021, the former president was expelled.
More than two years after being barred from the social media platforms, Meta has announced that former US President Donald Trump will be allowed to rejoin Facebook and Instagram.However, Meta stressed that it would set up new “guardrails” for his account to prevent “repeat violations.”
Following the incident at the US Capitol building in January 2021, the social media giant said the decision to ban Trump was reached under “exceptional circumstances” when it made the announcement on Wednesday. The business determined there was no longer a “severe risk to public safety” and decided Trump could go back, albeit with certain restrictions.
” In the upcoming weeks, we will reinstate Mr. Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. As a result of his transgressions, he now faces stiffer fines, according to Meta.”However, we are doing so with new guardrails in place to deter repeat offenses.
Any “additional breaching content” in violation of those guidelines would result in a new ban for a duration of one month to two years, the site warned. Users’ access to posts “connected to QAnon” and other content that “contributes to the sort of risk that materialised on January 6,” even if it does not clearly break the rules, may also be restricted.
Weeks after announcing his intention to run for president once more in 2024, Trump recently petitioned Meta to reactivate his accounts, according to documents obtained by NBC. According to reports, his team requested a meeting with the firm to discuss how Trump’s Facebook ban had “dramatically altered and limited the public conversation.”
Although it’s unknown whether that meeting ever occurred, Meta acknowledged in a statement announcing the termination of Trump’s suspension that “the public should be able to hear from a former president of the United States and a declared candidate for that office again,” adding that it did not want to “get in the way of open, public, and democratic debate.”
Trump used social media extensively during his triumphant 2016 campaign for president and carried on using his personal Twitter account for official announcements after taking office. He was also blocked from Twitter after the Capitol brawl, but Elon Musk, the service’s new owner, permitted him to rejoin it last November. On his reactivated account, the former president has yet to publish a single message, but a source close to Trump informed NBC that his campaign advisers are already coming up with ideas for his comeback tweet.
