San Francisco:
Meta said on Friday it was lifting restrictions on US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, ending measures implemented after his supporters violently stormed the US Capitol in 2021.
He stated that “former President Trump, as a Republican Party candidate, will no longer be subject to aggravated suspension sentences.”
Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were suspended indefinitely the day after his supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and it was determined that he had praised people involved in violence on social media.
Their accounts were reinstated in February 2023, but with the threat of penalties for future violations – an additional restriction that Meta lifted on Friday.
“In evaluating our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe the American people should be able to listen to presidential nominees on the same basis,” Meta wrote in a blog post.
It added that US presidential candidates “remain subject to the same Community Standards as all Facebook and Instagram users, including policies designed to prevent hate speech and incitement to violence.”
Trump, the first former president to be convicted of a crime, was also banned from Twitter and YouTube.
Although those restrictions were later lifted last year, Trump now communicates primarily on his own social media platform, Truth Social.
His Facebook profile, which has 34 million users, includes messages originally published on Truth Social, as well as invitations to rallies and campaign videos.
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