Long Overdue - Zuckerberg Ends Suspension Of Trump From Instagram And Facebook

Instagram, following an announcement made at the beginning of January, that it would decide on reinstating Trump “in the coming weeks.”, Facebook (now known as Meta) will reportedly, end former President Donald Trump’s suspension, from its main platform as well.

Nick Clegg, the company’s president of global affairs, announced that the former president will be able to resume usage on those platforms, “in the coming weeks” along with “new guardrails in place to deter repeat offenses.” Reportedly, the rollback on the former president’s suspension, comes a full two years after the January 6th riot at the Capitol.

After all the major platforms (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) booted him, in response to the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, this decision comes several weeks after the company reviewed the situation and announced it would be considering reinstating Trump to its platforms. Stating that on the company’s website - the guardrails will include “heightened penalties for repeat offenses, penalties which will apply to other public figures whose accounts are reinstated from suspensions related to civil unrest under our updated protocol “. Clegg said-

“In the event that Mr. Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed and he will be suspended for between one month and two years, depending on the severity of the violation,”

-Nick Clegg, Meta Company’s President Of Global Affairs

In his response on Truth Social, the former president responded to the possible lifting of the ban, on his Truth Social, account in a post reading-

“FACEBOOK, which has lost Billions of Dollars in value since “deplatforming” your favorite President, me, has just announced that they are reinstating my account. Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting President, or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution! THANK YOU TO TRUTH SOCIAL FOR DOING SUCH AN INCREDIBLE JOB. YOUR GROWTH IS OUTSTANDING, AND FUTURE UNLIMITED!!!”

-Former President Donald Trump

Even though he told protesters to “peacefully” let their voices be heard, while asking that they “go home,” Facebook and Instagram instituted a ban on Trump in the wake of the January 6 Capitol Hill riots.  At no point did the president ask his crowd of supporters to be violent or to storm the Capitol. Zuckerberg first said that the ban would be in place until Trump had finished out his term until the company’s semi-independent Oversight Board declared the ban to be appropriate.

“The Board found that the two posts by Mr. Trump on January 6 severely violated Facebook’s Community Standards and Instagram’s Community Guidelines,” it noted. “‘We love you. You’re very special’ in the first post and ‘great patriots’ and ‘remember this day forever’ in the second post violated Facebook’s rules prohibiting praise or support of people engaged in violence.”

-Nick Clegg, Meta Company’s President Of Global Affairs

Later, Clegg said in 2021, that the former president’s account, would only be reinstated if the-

“experts” [can properly] “assess whether the risk to public safety has receded.”….“We will evaluate external factors, including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markers of civil unrest. If we determine that there is still a serious risk to public safety, we will extend the restriction for a set period of time and continue to re-evaluate until that risk has receded,”

And…

“There will be a strict set of rapidly escalating sanctions that will be triggered if Mr. Trump commits further violations in future, up to and including permanent removal of his pages and accounts,”

-Nick Clegg, Meta Company’s President Of Global Affairs

At the time, Trump said of the ruling –

“Facebook’s ruling is an insult to the record-setting 75M people, plus many others, who voted for us in the 2020 Rigged Presidential Election,”….and… “They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing, and ultimately, we will win. Our Country can’t take this abuse anymore!”

-Former President Donald Trump

Regardless of whether Trump re-joins these platforms or not, the frank truth, is that for the recent past Trump has not needed this platform to get his message out. That he will be able to be back on this social media, during the campaign, may yet serve his purposes. Only time will tell.

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

-George Washington
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