Trump will be BACK on Facebook and Instagram in the ‘coming weeks’
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump will be BACK on Facebook and Instagram in the ‘coming weeks’
Facebook’s parent company Mega will reinstate former President Donald Trump after keeping him off the platform for two years, the company announced Wednesday.
“As a general rule, we don’t want to hinder open, public and democratic debate on Meta platforms, especially in the context of elections in democratic societies like the United States,” said Nick Clegg, the company’s president of Global. matters, he wrote in a moving blog post.
“The public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying, the good, the bad and the ugly, so they can make informed decisions at the polls,” he wrote.
The move comes two months after Trump announced he would run for re-election in 2024, though his campaign has been low-key to date, waged mostly online.
Donald Trump can return to Facebook, Meta announced
The move comes after Twitter CEO Elon Musk said he has lifted Trump’s suspension of the site, imposed after the riots on Capitol Hill, though Trump has yet to use the platform.
She has a large following on social media, but has been posting on her own Truth Social site.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google all blocked Trump after his effort to overturn the election.
Trump continues to claim he won the election, despite a litany of lawsuits filed by his supporters being thrown out of court and Congress meeting to count the votes certified by states before and after the riots on Capitol Hill.
News of the move comes as Trump is looking for new ways to engage the public. A report on Wednesday revealed that he began communicating with people he knows through text messages.
In recent days, he has used online platforms to criticize congressional Democrats and even sent a link to a DailyMail.com story about the Joe Biden document saga.