Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced that it will soon restore the twice-impeached ex-president’s access to their platforms, just over two years after Mr Trump used his social media profiles to incite a violent attack on the US Capitol.
Sir Nick Clegg, the former UK deputy prime minister who is now Meta’s president for global affairs, said in a blog post that the company had made the decision after assessing “whether the serious risk to public safety that existed in January 2021” — when Mr Trump urged a violent mob to storm the seat of the US legislature in last-ditch push to remain in office — had “sufficiently receded”.
