Donald Trump managed to overturn a decision that a priori seemed iron and irrevocable on the part of a communications giant. After a couple of years of lockdown, Objective lifted this Friday veto imposed on the former US president which left him without access to his accounts Facebook and Instagram.
In imitation of what Elon Musk did on Twitter with the support of a poll he organized himself, Mark Zuckerberg and the other Meta executives kept their word this Thursday and restored Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts after a two-year ban for his role in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2020.
The Republican leader asked Meta to reinstate him less than a month ago. And the company was quick to say yes.
His head of global affairs, the former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegghe announced the pardon in a very long press release in which he gave explanations of all kinds, assuring that he would be subjected to special surveillance: if once again it does not respect the particular rules and limitations of freedom of expression established by Meta, the company would impose “new protective measures to prevent the crimes from happening again”.
If the Republican leader returns to his old ways with some controversial message of his that could incite hatred, the text in question “will be eliminated” and he will be sanctioned with temporary expulsion from the network “between one month and two years, depending the seriousness of the violation,” Clegg said.
The capture of the Capitol: the end of Trump’s social networks
Three days after the January 6, 2021 episode, Mark Zuckerberg himself decided to do it stop for two weeks the official Facebook and Instagram accounts of tycoon Donald Trump. At the same time, his colleagues on Twitter, YouTube, Twitch and TikTok joined the outgoing president’s bloc.
It just so happens that after the inflammatory statements that, for many, encouraged the violent storming of the Capitol that afternoon, the online community began demanding that the president be prevented from sending messages to destabilize the democratic order.
Moreover, Michael Obama, former First Lady of the United States, strongly underlined the responsibility of Silicon Valley and its role as a transmitter of Donald Trump’s messages. From politics, you put a critical pin on a week to forget even on social media.
Facebook’s measures were added, in parallel, those of Twitter. The social network founded by Jack Dorsey, which is having a very strong controversy that lasted almost all of 2020, blocked Trump’s account on Wednesday for 12 hours, during which he could not publish anything, and had warned that future violations could result in permanent suspension.
Back then, the company called for the removal of three Trump tweets, including a short video asking supporters to “go home,” but also repeated falsehoods about the integrity of the presidential election. Trump’s account deleted those posts, Twitter later said.
With the change of CEO in the bird’s social network, the new boss Elon Musk has promoted the return of Donald Trump in the world of social networks by rehabilitating his account with more than 85 million followers, after an open poll that proved him right decision.
“The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk announced through his official account last November.
Musk promoted a 24-hour poll to ask if the former US president should return to the social network, which the platform suspended indefinitely after his comments in support of the storming of his country’s Capitol.
Source: Clarin
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