The former President Donald Trump has posted to Facebook for the first time since parent company Meta META reinstated his account in January. Trump wrote in the post, I M BACK! He attached a brief clip from his 2016 presidential win in which he was flanked by his son Barron Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.
In January, Meta restored Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts after he suspended them after the Jan. attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who wanted to halt the certification of the 2020 election.
Trump's post came just hours after Alphabet's GOOG, GOOGL YouTube reinstated Trump's account on the social media platform, citing a need to allow candidates for public office to be heard by voters.
We carefully weighed the risks of real-world violence, while balancing the chance for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run up to an election, read a statement on YouTube's Twitter account.
Trump will be on a short leash on Meta s platforms. The company's president of global affairs, Trump, faces heightened penalties for repeat offenses that will apply to other public figures whose accounts have been reinstated from suspensions related to civil unrest under our updated protocol, according to Nick Clegg. If Trump does not meet Meta's terms of service, the offending content will be removed and he will be subject to a suspension of one month and two years, depending on severity of the violation.
Trump hasn't posted anything on his Twitter account, which previously served as his de facto bully pulpit, while he posted to Facebook.
Shares of Digital World Acquisitions Corp. DWAC the blank check company set up to take Trump's Truth Social platform public via a reverse merger were down less than 1% in after market trading. The stock of the company has gone up as much as 81% in the last 12 months.
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