After Facebook banned then-President Donald Trump in January 2021 following the Capitol attack, the company said it would reconsider his status on the platform in two years’ time.
Courtney Radsch, an academic who has most recently studied free expression and technology at UCLA’s Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, said it was clear to her that the threat from Trump has not receded. She cited “the plethora of elected representatives who feel they cannot get elected or reelected without supporting his baseless claims and dangerous rhetoric.
She said tech companies should fight to protect free expression, especially of political candidates, and that the example they set will be watched by foreign governments looking for justification to shut down free speech. “I’m very worried internationally about the trend of countries passing laws under the guise of regulating the tech companies that those governments are then exploiting to subdue free expression,” she wrote in a paper for aIt’s not clear how much Trump might use his Facebook and Instagram accounts if given the chance. He hasn’t tweeted since Musk restored his Twitter account. Trump’s political organization still has an active Facebook page, Team Trump, where someone posts most days.
Despite Trump’s silence on social media platforms other than Truth Social, he’s still campaigning for the White House in 2024 and actively appealing to conspiracy theorists and election deniers.that Meta would “look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded” before unlocking Trump’s access.
“We will evaluate external factors, including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markers of civil unrest,” he wrote. “If we determine that there is still a serious risk to public safety, we will extend the restriction for a set period of time and continue to re-evaluate until that risk has receded.”Financial Times reportedMusk, at Twitter, also turned to outsiders for help with his decision — but users, not experts.
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