Donald Trump is back on Facebook and Instagram – Deseret News

Donald Trump is back on Facebook and Instagram as of Thursday, two years after being banned for his postings related to the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. His renewed access to these platforms will give him the opportunity to raise funds and awareness for his 2024 presidential campaign.Trump also got his Twitter account restored in November. He has yet to post on any of these platforms, but his campaign’s petition to Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, to reinstate his accounts and his significant use of Facebook ads in past elections suggest that social media users will be hearing from him at some point. “We believe that the ban on President Trump’s account on Facebook has dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse,” the campaign’s letter read, according to NBC. The former president was well known for using social media to his advantage. When running for president in 2019, he outspent all his opponents to build a “sophisticated” Facebook campaign, The Guardian reported. “It is the most important vehicle for fundraising and for reaching a lot of people in the persuadable audience,” a Trump adviser said of Facebook, per CNN.The suspensions of his accounts were supposed to last
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