Trump to be allowed back onto Facebook and Instagram

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25 Jan 2023, 9:26 pm

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Donald Trump will be allowed back on to Facebook and Instagram, after Meta announced it would be ending its two-year suspension of his accounts.

The suspension will end "in the coming weeks", the social media giant said.

In a statement, Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, said the public "should be able to hear what their politicians are saying".

The then-US president was indefinitely suspended from Facebook and Instagram after the Capitol riot in 2021.

The firm had taken action following Mr Trump's "praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol", Mr Clegg said.

"The suspension was an extraordinary decision taken in extraordinary circumstances," he added.

He said a review found that Mr Trump's accounts no longer represented a serious risk to public safety.

But because of Mr Trump's past "violations" he would now face heightened penalties for repeat offences.

Mr Trump posted on his own social media company, Truth Social, in response on Wednesday, saying that Facebook had "lost Billions" after banning "your favorite President, me".
"Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting President, or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution!" he wrote.

Donald Trump now has a decision to make.

Truth Social, a social media platform he set up in 2021, has vastly fewer users than Facebook
Facebook has three billion users.

Truth Social may have as many as five million accounts - though it's likely it has far fewer active users.

However, Mr Trump has an exclusivity agreement with Truth Social - that means he is legally required to post first on the platform - six hours before any other platform.

It means if he posts on Facebook or Twitter - there is a chance he could get sued.

Analysts also warn that if Mr Trump were to stop using Truth Social, or post content elsewhere, the platform would struggle to survive.

He could simply ignore that exclusivity agreement - and start posting content straight away.
However, that could open him up to legal problems.

What is also possible is that he simply waits until June, when the agreement times out.


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25 Jan 2023, 11:36 pm

^^^

Does the talented Mr. Trump even know how to tell the truth?



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26 Jan 2023, 9:05 am

Soooo, Meta decided that the probability of them getting sued & being liable for what trump posts must be low based on the fact they weren't held accountable for anything they continued to let him post in the past that had pretty horrific results with the whole violent insurrection thing on J6 2021 and that they'd be happy to cash in on the ad revenue from all the eyeballs glued to trumplestiltskins posts as people watch him mentally deteriorate in real time as various legal walls continue to close in on him.

Maybe Meta's done there own analysis and figures trump's political power is dwindling and the chances he can do another domestic terrorism are low, so, really, they might be fools not to cash in on his mental and legal suffering over the months and years ahead as he's investigated, charged, taken to court and loses over and over again, has his criminal empire and crime family RICO'd by the US gov't, picked apart and sold off.. Meta's in it to Be the 3 ring circus that everyone has a front row seat to to watch the clown-shit-show unfold like a slow moving train wreck that once in motion cannot be stopped.

That's what's happening and why.


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