Meta to lift Trump’s Facebook and Instagram restrictions ahead of election

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restrictions ahead of election

Former President Donald Trump speaks during his campaign rally at the Trump National Doral Golf Club on July 09, 2024 in Doral, Florida. 

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Meta said Friday it will remove any previously imposed penalties and restrictions on former president Donald Trump’s

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accounts, as the upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential election nears.

The company first put restrictions on Trump’s social media accounts in 2021, shortly after the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington D.C. At the time, Meta suspended Trump’s accounts for a two-year *******, after it deemed that some of the former president’s actions, such as praising the Capitol Rioters, were a potential risk for inciting more *********.

In January 2023, Meta said it would reinstate Trump on its platform, and he regained access to his accounts the following month. But Trump was still subject to remaining suspension-related penalties and restrictions. After Meta’s Friday announcement, though, if Trump were to violate Meta’s community guidelines, he would face a much shorter possible suspension that could last only a few days, as opposed to a lengthier suspension under the previously imposed penalties.

Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, wrote in the Friday

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that the original suspension and penalties “were a response to extreme and extraordinary circumstances, and have not had to be deployed.”

“With the party conventions taking place shortly, including the *********** convention next week, the candidates for President of the ******* States will soon be formally nominated,” Clegg wrote. “In assessing our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe that the ********* people should be able to hear from the nominees for President on the same basis.”

A Meta spokesperson characterized the update as “simply bringing presumptive GOP nominee Trump to parity with President Biden.”

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