{"id":330,"date":"2024-07-13T10:14:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T10:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=330"},"modified":"2024-07-13T10:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T10:14:55","slug":"meta-lifts-ban-on-trumps-facebook-instagram-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/meta-lifts-ban-on-trumps-facebook-instagram-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Lifts Ban On Trump&#8217;s Facebook, Instagram Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meta announced on Friday that it is lifting some restrictions placed on former U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s Facebook and Instagram accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The social media giant suspended Trump&#8217;s accounts indefinitely after his commendation of protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Two years later, the company reinstated his accounts with the resolve to monitor Trump&#8217;s posts for further violations that could lead to another suspension of between one month and two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump, who is the main rival to President Joe Biden in the November election will no longer be subject to the additional monitoring, according to Meta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;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,&#8221; Meta said in an updated blog post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The failure of the company to put a check on political content, including from politicians, had attracted criticisms from social media experts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump was also banned from Twitter, now known as X, in 2021 but was restored shortly after Billionaire Elon Musk acquired the company in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: Reuters<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta announced on Friday that it is lifting some restrictions placed on former U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s Facebook and Instagram accounts. The social media giant suspended Trump&#8217;s accounts indefinitely after his commendation of protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Two years later, the company reinstated his accounts with the resolve to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}