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Meta announced former President Donald Trump ’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will no longer be subject to heightened abatement penalization , according to an updatedblog poston Friday . The company enounce it made the decision to ensure all Presidential nominees were on equal foothold on their platform ahead of the 2024 Presidential election .
When Meta reinstate Trump ’s societal media profile in January 2023 , the company subject him to exacting penalties than other substance abuser . Under the heighten penalties , the former President could have been ostracise for up to two years for violating Meta ’s community of interests standards . Now , the company say Trump will be held to the same penalties as any other Facebook or Instagram user .
Under those rules for normal user , breaking Facebook ’s Community Standards willlead to a warning . After two strikes , exploiter can be banish from specific posting feature for modified amount of money of prison term . Only after seven violations are users banned from mail for an full day , and 10 strikes to get a month long prohibition
“ In assessing our responsibility to give up political expression , we believe that the American the great unwashed should be able to find out from the nominees for President on the same basis , ” said Meta in a web log post .
Meta originallybannedTrump following the January 6 insurrection in 2021 , back when Facebook was Trump ’s preferred room to communicate with his supporters online . At the clip , CEO Mark Zuckerbergsaid“the risk of infection of allowing the President to stay to use our table service during this period are but too cracking , ” before banish Trump indefinitely . These Clarence Day , Trump on a regular basis posts on Facebook for his 34 million follower , but he ’s more active on his own societal media platform , Truth Social .
The company is rolling back its abrasive penalties against the former President just before the 2024 Republican National Convention . However , Meta says these heightened suspension penalty were a response to uttermost circumstances , and were never deploy against Trump .
before this hebdomad , Donald Trump send athreatening statementagainst Mark Zuckerberg on Truth Social . The former President said he would put “ election fraudsters ” in prison and called the CEO of Meta out by his latest cognomen , “ Zuckerbucks . ” Trump discourage Zuckerberg to “ be careful . ”
