Meta assures that it will announce “very soon” if it will reinstate Trump

Zuckerberg’s company suspended Trump’s account in 2021 after accusing him of using the social network to post content accusing him of electoral fraud

Goalthe parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram, has not yet made a decision on if he will rehabilitate the accounts of the former president of the United States donald trump, but he announced that they will be pronounced “very soon.”

Goal suspended Trump’s account in January 2021 after accuse him to use the social network to publish content in which he accused of electoral fraud and incited his followers during the violent march in which they stormed the US Capitol on January 6 of that same year.

“We have not made a decision. But we will make an announcement very soon. We suspended it two years ago so we plan to make an announcement, hopefully relatively soon, about what we are going to do,” the former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom and now head of global affairs at Meta, Nick Clegg, told a group of journalists on Wednesday. .

Within the framework of the Davos Economic Forum, Clegg wanted to make it clear that for them “suspending the former president of the most powerful democracy in the world for two years is something unprecedented» and in their decision they will analyze the risk of reinstating Trump.

“At the time we said that we would analyze whether or not the challenge to public safety had changed over that time. But as a general principle, we are a private sector company that believes that political debate should be held in the openGlegg added.

In this sense, he assured that Trump’s suspension served to publish on his platform “a new set of measures, especially applied to public figures in moments of instability or conflict.”

Thus, the company led by Mark Zuckerberg has a package of measures approved in June 2021 that They can cause the suspension from one month to two years of the accounts in their networks depending on the seriousness for public safety that its use entails.

Meta’s next decision comes after Twitter’s new owner, Elon Muskwill announce that reinstates former President Trump’s social media account after promoting a survey in said network that was favorable to make that decision.

Twitter also suspended Trump’s account indefinitely after link your comments to the storming of the Capitol.

Source: EFE