Facebook today announced the suspension of Donald Trump from his platform until January 7, 2023. That is exactly two years after the former US president was banned from Facebook due to his comments that incited the crowd to storm Congress. on January 6th. After two years, Facebook will decide on a possible reintegration by evaluating the “risk to the safety of the public”. If the suspension is lifted, Trump will still be subjected to “tight sanctions” in case of new violations, explains a post on the Facebook website. “We knew that any sanctions that we applied, or not applied, would be controversial – wrote Facebook’s deputy director of global affairs, Nick Clegg – we know that today’s decision will be criticized by many opposing political parties, but the our job is to make decisions ». The sanctions against Trump have been taken as part of new guidelines established by Facebook against public figures on the occasion of violence and riots.
Facebook’s decision “is an insult to 75 million people who voted for us in the rigged presidential elections of 2020” reacts Donald Trump. Speaking of censorship, Trump observes: “Our country can no longer bear this abuse.”