Trump to be allowed back on Facebook and Instagram

DONALD TRUMP is set to have his Facebook and Instagram accounts reinstated but Meta will put up “guardrails” to “deter” any offensive behaviour, Nick Clegg, the company’s head of policy, announced yesterday.

The former US president will be allowed back on the site in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the deadly Jan 6 Capitol Hill insurrection led by his supporters.

Mr Trump, writing on his own social media site Truth Social, responded by saying such a ban should “never again happen to a sitting president”, while claiming Meta lost “billions of dollars” by banning him.

The 76-year-old has said he will make another run for the White House in 2024, and Facebook and Instagram are key vehicles for political outreach and fundraising.

In November he regained access to Twitter, his once-favoured online megaphone, and a few weeks later he said he was in talks with Meta about returning.

“The public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying – the good, the bad and the ugly – so that they can make informed choices at the ballot box,” wrote Mr Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, in a blog post.

“But that does not mean there are no limits to what people can say on our platform.”