Donald Trump returns to Facebook and Instagram. He will be in a matter of "weeks" and after two years of expulsion as a result of his messages in relation to an alleged "fraud" in the 2020 presidential elections and the assault on the Capitol, on January 6, 2021.
The president of Global Affairs of Meta, Nick Clegg, announced the reinstatement on Wednesday night, just a week after the former president requested it, through those responsible for his campaign for the 2024 elections.
"We believe that the ban on President Trump's Facebook account has dramatically distorted and inhibited public discourse," an election spokesman for the Republican leader said on January 18.
In his quick and affirmative response, Clegg now says yes, that's fine, although he warns that Trump's accounts will be subject to "new safeguards to prevent repeat crimes."
Such measures will include "higher penalties for repeat offences." Sanctions that will also apply "to other public figures whose accounts are restored from suspensions related to civil disturbances according to our updated protocol," Clegg added in a long official statement published on the company's website.
"In the event that Mr. Trump publishes more content that violates the rules" of Meta, added the also former British Deputy Prime Minister (2010 and 2015), the illegal text in question "will be eliminated" and he, sanctioned with temporary expulsion from the network "between one month and two years, depending on the severity of the violation."
With his important decision, considered in the media as a crucial precedent regarding the cost that the lies and incendiary messages of some figures may or may not have on certain networks, Mark Zuckerberg's company follows in the wake of Elon Musk's Twitter; Two months ago, and after a public survey with a tight affirmative result, the tycoon and also owner of Tesla decided to reactivate Trump's account on the blue bird network despite the atrocities that the leader had written on it during his tenure; especially, before and during the assault on the Capitol.
The former president then responded to Musk by saying thanks but no. And he explained that he preferred to continue using his own network, Truth Social: an assertion that should be taken with a grain of salt, however, given the far-right leader's endless record of deceit.
