Former Pres. Trump was originally suspended from Facebook after the Jan. 6 Capitol siege over concerns his posts were inciting violence.
The former president criticized the decision in a statement.
"Facebook's ruling is an insult to the record-setting 75M people, plus many others, who voted for us in the 2020 Rigged Presidential Election," Trump said in the statement."They shouldn't be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing, and ultimately, we will win.
After a review, the Facebook Oversight Board announced in early May that Trump would remain banned, but posited it was"not appropriate" to"impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension." It was in response to that call that Facebook made the decision to uphold the suspension for a set period of two years.When that ruling was made in May, Trump
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