Donald Trump’s Facebook & Instagram Accounts Reinstated – Update

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UPDATED, 4:35 PM: Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts have been reinstated, Meta said today. The news comes two weeks after the social media company said it was going to bring the former president back to the platforms and more than two years after he was suspended indefinitely.

Read more details below. PREVIOUSLY, January 25: Meta said on Wednesday that it would reinstate the Facebook and Instagram accounts of former President Donald Trump, two years after he was suspended.

The social media giant made clear that Trump would have to abide by the platforms’ rules. “The normal state of affairs is that the public should be able to hear from a former President of the United States, and a declared candidate for that office again, on our platforms,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said in a blog post. “Now that the time period of the suspension has elapsed, the question is not whether we choose to reinstate Mr.

Trump’s accounts, but whether there remain such extraordinary circumstances that extending the suspension beyond the original two-year period is justified.” Trump was suspended from Facebook and Instagram following his praise for those involved in the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.