After Twitter, Facebook? Donald Trump has officially asked to be able to return to the social network, his campaign team said on Wednesday, urging not to “promote real dialogue and not to silence a presidential candidate”.
The lawyer of the former US president sent a letter to the founder of the platform Mark Zuckerberg, asking him for “a meeting to discuss the rapid reinstatement” of Donald Trump on the social network. “We believe that the suspension of President Trump’s Facebook account has radically distorted and limited public debate,” argues Scott Gast in this letter, dated Tuesday.
A decision from Meta “in the coming weeks”
The former Republican leader had been suspended from the social network after the attack carried out by his supporters against the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Facebook had assessed that Donald Trump could only return when “the risks to public security had disappeared”. Asked Wednesday, a spokesman for Meta, the network’s parent company, promised a decision “in the coming weeks.”
Donald Trump had already been reinstated on Twitter on November 19, 2022, four days after declaring his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. He has not yet sent a message on this account, but communicates mainly through his own platform, Truth Social.
