Chinanews.com, January 26. According to the US Chinese website, two years after the account was "frozen", Meta, the parent company of the US social media platform Facebook, said on the 25th local time that it would restore Trump's Facebook account.
Data map: Former US President Trump.
According to reports, since his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, Trump was accused of calling on supporters to attack Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, and several of his social media accounts were banned afterwards.
But some critics have criticized the censorship of Trump and other conservative voices.
On January 25, 2023, Meta said it had decided to withdraw the ban because it had determined that the risk to public safety had "sufficiently subsided" since January 2021.
The company added that they will also add safeguards to prevent what happened before from happening again.
"The public should be able to hear what politicians are saying, the good, the bad and the ugly, so they can make informed choices at the ballot box," said Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs. It doesn’t mean people can speak freely on our platform. When there is a clear risk of harm in the real world, we take action.”
Trump posted on his own social media platform Truth Social that what happened to him should not "happen to the current president again, or anyone else who should not be punished!"
The report pointed out that in November 2022, Trump's Twitter account was restored, which gave him a greater say in the 2024 presidential campaign.
But so far, Trump has not tweeted.
Truth Social is his only active social media platform.
Additionally, YouTube has not said whether it will allow him to return to the platform.