Facebook owner Meta is expected to decide whether the social media platform will allow former US President Donald Trump to return to Facebook and Instagram, according to a Financial Times report. This comes after Donald Trump was reinstated on Twitter.
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Meta was previously expected to take the call before January 7, but the report indicated that it has now been moved to sometime later this month. The social media company has established a working group to focus on the issue, according to the report, adding that the group includes staff from the public policy and communications teams along with members of the content policy team.
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Earlier, the new head of Twitter, Elon Musk, revoked a permanent ban on Donald Trump. Elon Musk made the decision in November last year after asking users of the social media platform in a poll whether Donald Trump should be allowed back on the platform. Although the ban was overturned, Donald Trump said that he is not interested in returning to Twitter at all and that he will stick with his own social media platform Truth Social.
“I don’t see any reason for it,” Donald Trump said in a video when asked if he planned to return to Twitter during a talk at the annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
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Donald Trump’s Twitter and Facebook accounts were suspended in January 2021. This came after the former US president called on his supporters to denounce the 2020 election while undermining the electoral process after which his supporters besieged the US Capitol. In the election, Donald Trump lost to incumbent President Joe Biden.
