Restrictions on Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram lifted

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Restrictions on Donald Trump’s

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Meta has lifted the final restrictions on Donald Trump’s

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accounts in the run up to US presidential elections in November.

The ex-US president and convicted felon’s accounts were suspended in 2021 after he praised supporters who stormed the

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Trump’s accounts, which combined have over 60 million followers,

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but subject to additional monitoring, which has now been removed, the social media giant said in a blog post.

Meta said it had a responsibility to allow political expression and that Americans should be able to hear from presidential nominees on an equal basis.

It added that US presidential candidates “remain subject to the same Community Standards as all

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users, including those policies designed to prevent hate speech and incitement to *********.”

Since returning to Meta’s platforms, Trump’s accounts have mostly posted campaign details and memes including attacks on his presidential race rival Joe Biden.

Prior to his 2021 ban, Trump’s

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posts were often some of the most popular in the US, according to data at the time from CrowdTangle.

Trump

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and was also banned from

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Restrictions on these accounts were also lifted last year, but despite this Trump communicates now on

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, before reposting to other networks.

Trump returned to

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– now called X – after the company’s CEO Elon Musk held a poll that asked users to click “yes” or “no” on whether Trump’s account should be reinstated. “Yes” won, apparently with 51.8% of the vote.

The big tech companies acted after the Capitol Hill riots which ******* five people and injured more than 100 police officers. Trump was accused of inciting ********* and repeatedly spreading disinformation.

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