Trump’s Facebook and Instagram ban lifted

DONALD TRUMP is to be allowed back on Facebook and Instagram two years after he was blocked by parent company Meta for peddling conspiracy theories about his 2020 presidential election defeat.

The suspension will end “in the coming weeks”, the social media giant said. The former president was indefinitely suspended from Facebook and Instagram after the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Meta said in a post that it was adding “new guardrails” to ensure there were no “repeat offenders” who violate its rules, even if they were political candidates or world leaders.

“The public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying — the good, the bad and the ugly — so that they can make informed choices at the ballot box,” wrote Nick Clegg, Meta’s vice president of global affairs. Mr Trump is preparing for a third run at the White House and blasted Facebook’s original decision to suspend his account. “FACEBOOK, which has lost Billions of Dollars in value since “deplatforming” your favorite President, me, has just announced that they are reinstating my account. Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting President, or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution!” he wrote.

Meanwhile the Trump “baby blimp”, left, that was the centrepiece of London’s protests during a 2019 state visit, was reinflated by the Museum of London to check if it is structurally sound. It hopes to put it on show at its new home in West Smithfield.