Former President Donald Trump issued a formal plea to Facebook to follow in Twitter’s footsteps and reinstate his account after both were blocked in the aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots–a request that comes as Trump is gearing up for his third presidential run.
Trump’s campaign, in a Tuesday letter to Facebook parent company Meta, said the ban “has dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse,” NBC News reported.
Trump’s campaign stopped short of threatening a lawsuit and instead requested a meeting with the company “to discuss President Trump’s prompt reinstatement to the platform.”
Facebook locked Trump’s account on January 7, 2021, and said it would conduct a review of the decision two years later.
The tech watchdog nonprofit Accountable Tech is advocating for Meta to continue its ban on Trump’s accounts and has launched a billboard campaign outside of Facebook offices in Washington, Menlo Park, Calif., and New York City. "If Facebook looks at what Trump has been putting out publicly in the past few years, it is clear he is not a reduced threat to safety, If anything, he has gotten more emboldened,” Executive Director Nicole Gill told The Financial Times.
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