– The accounts will be restored in the coming weeks, says president of global operations at Meta, Nick Clegg in an announcement on Wednesday. NBC News reports. Meta owns the social platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram were closed after storming Congress on January 6, 2021. Meta states that they do not want to hinder public and democratic debate on their platforms. They believe it is important that the public should know what the politicians think. – But that does not mean that there are no limits to what you can say on our platform. When there is a clear risk that could harm the world, then we must take action, writes Clegg. President of global operations in Meta, Nick Clegg Photo: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP Meta announces new guidelines to prevent new violations of the terms of use of the social platforms. – Like all other users of Facebook and Instagram, Trump must also follow our terms of use. If he posts offensive content, it will be removed and he will be banned between one month and two years, depending on the severity, writes Clegg. – should never happen again A spokesperson for Trump has not responded to NBC News’ requests for comment on the matter. But Trump himself posted on his own platform Truth Social. There he chastised the decision from 2021 to have been banned, and at the same time he boasts of his own platform. – Facebook, which has lost billions of dollars in value since their favorite president, me, was ousted, has just announced that they are reopening my account. Something like this should never happen again to a sitting president, or anyone else who doesn’t deserve retribution, Trump writes. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP Political Power Meta’s decision Wednesday comes a few weeks after the deadline Facebook gave itself to reevaluate the 2021 decision. Four weeks after Republicans, many of them critical of Facebook’s 2021 decision, have regained control of the House of Representatives House. Then-minority leader and now leader of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, promised at the time to curb the power of the tech giants over what people are allowed to say. Trump, who announced at the end of last year that he will stand as a candidate for the next presidential election, asked earlier this month to regain access to Facebook. – We believe that the closure of former President Trump’s Facebook account has led to a dramatic distortion and hindered public debate, his campaign staff wrote in a letter to Meta on January 17, according to a copy obtained by NBC News. Photo: OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP Twitter Trump’s Twitter account was also closed after the January 6 storming in 2021. Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk announced in November last year that Trump had regained Twitter access. Musk conducted a poll on his own Twitter account to allow Trump to return to the platform. 51.8 percent voted yes to allow the former president to return, while 48.2 percent voted no. Over 15 million Twitter accounts voted. – The people have spoken, stated Musk. However, Trump has not wanted to use the Twitter account after the reopening. The exclusion from the major social media in 2021 led Trump to invest in the creation of his own, but far less popular, platform Truth Social, where he has since been active.
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