Facebook, Instagram Suspends Donald Trump Accounts for Two years

USA: Facebook has suspended former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts for two years.

Trump was barred indefinitely from both Facebook and Instagram in January in the wake of posts he made on the US Capitol riots.

Facebook now said Mr. Trump’s actions were “a severe violation of our rules”, and was “an insult” to the millions who voted for him in last year’s presidential election.

Mr. Trump’s ban was effective from the date of the initial suspension on 7 January, Facebook’s vice-president of global affairs Nick Clegg said in a post.

Last month, the Oversight Board upheld Facebook’s suspension of former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts following his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6. But in doing so, the board criticized the open-ended nature of the suspension, stating that “it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension.” The board instructed us to review the decision and respond in a way that is clear and proportionate and made many recommendations on how to improve our policies and processes.

Facebook also said that it would no longer give politicians immunity for deceptive or abusive content based on their comments being newsworthy.

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