Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, on Thursday lifted the suspension, in effect since January 2021, of former US President Donald Trump’s accounts on those social networks.
In the first hours after the decision, the Republican primary nominee for the 2024 North American presidential election has still not published anything on those platforms, agency Efe reported.
The return of the Republican tycoon’s bills comes weeks after Meta announced it would restore the former president’s access.
The ban began following comments made by Trump before, during, and after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Twitter, for its part, restored Trump’s account last November and the Republican has not published a single word on this platform since then.
The reactivation of Trump’s accounts will allow him to share information again through his Facebook and Instagram pages, which have 34 million and 23 million followers respectively.
In January, the former head of state had officially asked to return to Facebook.
Attorney Scott Gast sent a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg asking him to “meet to discuss the early takeover” on that social network.
“We believe that the suspension of President Trump’s Facebook account has radically distorted and limited public debate”can be read in the message of January 17.
Trump was a big fan of social media when he was in the White House between 2017 and 2021, whether he was announcing official business, commenting on television shows, or announcing what he would be eating that day, among many other things.
After being banned from major social networks in 2021, the former president created his own social network, Truth Social, which he launched in October 2021.
Trump signed an exclusive contract with Truth Social, the validity of which is unknown, although the specialized “media” indicate that this situation could end in March 2023.
Source: DN
