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Meta, the company that owns Instagram and Facebook, He still hasn’t made a decision on whether to rehabilitate the accounts of former US President Donald Trumpwho seeks to return to these social networks in the face of the 2024 presidential elections.
Within the framework of the World Economic Forum that takes place in Davos, Switzerland, the former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom and now head of global affairs at Meta, Nick Clegg, assured that the technology company will rule “very soon” on the accounts of the former US president.
“We haven’t made a decision. But we are going to make an announcement very soon. We suspended it two years ago, so we plan to make an announcement, hopefully relatively soon, about what we are going to do, ”she said in an interview.
The company founded by Mark Zuckerberg suspended Donald Trump’s Facebook account in January 2021 after accusing him of using the social network to incite violence in the assault on the Capitol on January 6 of that same year.
“At the time, we said that we would analyze whether the challenge to public safety whether or not it had changed in that time. But as a general principle, we are a private sector company that believes that political debate should be held in the open,” said Nick Glegg.
For his part, it transpired that Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers sent a letter to Meta executives to formally request the restoration of the former US president’s Facebook account.
“We are writing to request a meeting to discuss the early reinstatement of President Trump a the platform”, indicates a fragment of the letter released by ABC News.
Facing the 2024 presidential elections, Donald Trump seeks to return to Facebook where, before being suspended, his account had 34 million followers, while on Instagram he had 25 million subscribers.
With information from Efe.
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