Meta Could Bring Donald Trump Back to Facebook, Instagram
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Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta may be on the verge of allowing former President Donald Trump back on both platforms, where he would once again have access to tens of millions of people as he ramps up his bid to capture the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Trump was kicked off both platforms shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol Building after he was accused of inciting the violence in which one of his supporters, Ashli Babbitt, a young female Air Force veteran, was killed by a plainclothes Capitol Police officer as she attempted to climb through a broken window into a House anteroom.
According to Fox News, citing the Financial Times, the company initially planned to announce whether Trump would be reinstated by Jan. 7, but that date has been pushed back. Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, has reportedly put together a team of people to look at potentially reinstating Trump. In October, Clegg indicated that the company was strongly leaning towards an end to the ban.
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“We believe that any private company–and this is really regardless of one’s personal views about Donald Trump–should tread with great thoughtfulness when seeking to, basically, silence political voices,” he said then.
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