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WASHINGTON: Former US President Donald Trump has asked Facebook to reinstate his social media account two years following it was deactivated, his aides said on Wednesday, as the former President gears up for a third attempt for the White House.
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The social media app banned Donald Trump a day following the January 6, 2021 insurrection, when a mob of his supporters made an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden by attacking the US Capitol in Washington.
He claimed that the presidential elections were stolen from him and was subsequently impeached for inciting the riots.
Trump’s attorney Scott Gast said in a letter to Meta that the ban had ” distorted and inhibited the public discourse.”
The lawyer asked for a meeting to discuss the former President’s “prompt reinstatement to the social media platform,” where he had 34 million followers, asking that his status as the leading contestant for the Republican party nomination in 2024 justified ending the ban.
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A US congressional committee had recommended in December that Donald Trump be prosecuted for his involvement in the Capitol attack.
Trump’s Twitter account was also blocked following the riot.
Facebook said that it would review Donald Trump’s ban on January 7, after two-year had passed.
New Twitter boss Elon Musk reinstated Donald Trump’s social media account last November after he announced that he will run for another term in the White House. Trump has yet to post. Musk posted in November 2022 that Trump’s account will be reinstated.
