Meta lifts final restrictions and says US voters should be able to hear from presidential nominees.

Meta has lifted the final restrictions on Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the run up to US presidential elections in November.

The ex-US president and convicted felon’s accounts were suspended in 2021 after he praised supporters who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January.

Trump’s accounts, which combined have over 60 million followers, were re-instated in 2023 but subject to additional monitoring, which has now been removed, the social media giant said in a blog post.

Meta said it had a responsibility to allow political expression and that Americans should be able to hear from presidential nominees on an equal basis.

  • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The problem is that it fundamentally makes them a political org to choose one side over the other.

    And the US Government has made it clear that they don’t consider a violent insurrection to be treason.

    No they didn’t. They prosecuted a LOT of people for that.

    So why should facebook go to bat and make themselves an even bigger target come January?

    That’s the reason. Fuck Facebook’s own rules, they are trying to mitigate an attack by a fascist dictator.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      No they didn’t. They prosecuted a LOT of people for that.

      And we just had a supreme court ruling that gives the ringleader immunity for anything he will ever do because he was POTUS for four years.

      Individual users? Yeah, ban them because the law applies to them. Orange shitstain? There is no legal ground for him having commit treason so it is purely a decision by the moderation staff of a company who don’t want to get navy seals knocking on the door come January.

      That’s the reason. Fuck Facebook’s own rules, they are trying to mitigate an attack by a fascist dictator.

      Yes. I said that was the reason. Glad we are in agreement.

      And considering the American People would rather bicker over whether Biden is old than “holy fuck the nazis have a publicly available plan for how they are going to destroy the country”… when The People clearly won’t have your back, why fight on their behalf?