Donald Trump has been allowed by Meta to start posting again on Facebook and Instagram as he eyes a return to the White House.
Meta is ending its suspension of Donald Trump on Facebook and Instagram, allowing the former president to start posting again as he eyes a return to the White House via the 2024 election.
Trump was suspended indefinitely from the social media sites shortly after the riots at the Capitol in January 2021.
Access to his accounts will be opened up “in the coming weeks,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
Clegg wrote that Meta’s Trump ban was “an extraordinary decision taken in extraordinary circumstances,” and that the decision to ban him came “following his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
The Meta executive said that at the time, the company’s action was referred to the Oversight Board — a body established by Meta as an independent check and balance on its decision-making.
“The board upheld the decision, but criticized the open-ended nature of the suspension and the lack of clear criteria for when and whether suspended accounts will be restored, directing us to review the matter to determine a more proportionate response,” Clegg wrote.
