Analysis: What Facebook and Trump have in common
, saying it would reinstate him only if “the risk to public safety has receded.”
Meta announced on Jan. 25 that it would reinstate former president Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts after a two-year suspension. There was a time when Facebook’s decision to reinstate Trump would have stirred pyrotechnics of partisan outrage, with pundits picking apart each point for insight into what it reveals about exactly how the social network wields its awesome power over the public square. On Wednesday, with Musk having already invited Trump back to Twitter, the initial reaction from the left registered more like resignation.At this point, there’s a sense in which Facebook and Trump almost feel made for each other.
This might yet turn out to be a fateful decision, if Trump makes a triumphant return to Facebook and Twitter and rides them to another conspiracy-theory-fueled bid for the presidency. While Twitter allowed him to set the day’s media and political agendas, Facebook has historically served as a lucrative fundraising platform for his campaigns.
But at this moment, the move feels inevitable more than earthshaking; a sheepish olive branch extended from a diminished institution to a diminished politician, each struggling to maintain its relevance.
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