Following a two-year suspension.
The restoration of his accounts could provide a boost to Trump, who announced in November he will make another run for the White House in 2024. He has 34 million followers on Facebook and 23 million on Instagram, platforms that are key vehicles for political outreach and fundraising.
The decision, while widely expected, drew sharp rebukes from civil rights advocates."Facebook has policies but they under-enforce them," said Laura Murphy, an attorney who led a two-year long audit of Facebook concluding in 2020."I worry about Facebook's capacity to understand the real world harm that Trump poses: Facebook has been too slow to act."
The company indefinitely revoked Trump's access to his Facebook and Instagram accounts after removing two of his posts during the Capitol Hill violence, including a video in which he reiterated his false claim of widespread voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election. Whether, and how, Trump will seize upon the opportunity to return to Facebook and Instagram is unclear.
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