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By James Meyers
Meta, formerly Facebook, announced on Friday that the platform would be taking away restrictions from former President Donald Trump’s Meta and Instagram accounts in the next few weeks.
The company said it was making the change in order to ensure equality among presidential candidates leading up to the 2024 election.
Since the 45th president’s accounts were reinstated in January 2023, Trump’s accounts have been subject to much stricter penalties than other famous Meta users, which includes account suspensions and advertising restrictions if he violated the company’s policies.
“With the party conventions taking place shortly, including the Republican convention next week, the candidates for President of the United States will soon be formally nominated,” Meta wrote in an update.
“In assessing our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe that the American people should be able to hear from the nominees for President on the same basis,” it continued.
Additionally, Meta said on Friday that the former president’s accounts will no longer be subject to additional penalties, while adding that this was in response to “extreme and extraordinary circumstances” and “have not had to be deployed.”
“All US Presidential candidates remain subject to the same Community Standards as all Facebook and Instagram users, including those policies designed to prevent hate speech and incitement to violence,” the social company added…
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