Facebook lifted restrictions on Donald Trump after his supporters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, putting the former president on equal footing on the platform with President Biden just days before the Republican National Convention.
The social media giant had banned the former president from its platforms in 2021, after his followers stormed the Capitol. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, lifted the ban last year, but announced that Trump would be subject to “safeguards” such as “enhanced suspension penalties” if posts violated his standards.
Today, the company removed those restrictions and said that although they were implemented following the “extreme and ordinary circumstances” of the attack on the Capitol, Trump did nothing to circumvent them.
“As we weigh our duty to allow political expression, we believe other Americans deserve to be able to hear presidential candidates in the same way,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, wrote in a message posted on the corporate website. Friday.
Clegg added that Biden and Trump remain held to the same “community standards” as all other users of the company’s platforms, adding Facebook and Instagram.
Facebook, the world’s largest social media site, has been an advertising tool and a place to collect donations from supporters of Trump’s two previous campaigns.
Lately, however, he posts on his own Truth Social site, which he launched after Facebook and others suspended him.
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