Donald Trump suspended from Facebook and Instagram for two years

Donald Trump suspended from Facebook and Instagram for two years

Facebook said Donald Trump’s accounts on the social giant’s

platforms will be suspended for two years until January 2023

and will only be reinstated “if conditions permit.”

The company’s announcement comes after the

independent Facebook Oversight Board upheld the

company’s suspension of the ex-U.S. president after

Trump praised people engaged in violence at

the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Facebook’s two-year sanction against Trump for

“severe violations” was deemed to be “long enough to

allow a safe period of time after the acts of incitement,

to be significant enough to be a deterrent to Mr Trump

and others from committing such severe violations in future,

and to be proportionate to the gravity of the violation itself,”

Nick Clegg, Facebook’s VP of global affairs, wrote in a blog post.

According to Clegg, “Given the gravity of the circumstances

that led to Mr Trump’s suspension, we believe his actions

constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the

highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols.

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We are suspending his accounts for two years, effective from

the date of the initial suspension on January 7 this year.”

After the two-year time period is up, in January 2023,

“we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public

safety has receded” in whether to reinstate Trump’s Facebook

and Instagram accounts, Clegg continued.

“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.”

When Trump’s suspension is eventually lifted, “there will be

a strict set of rapidly escalating sanctions that will be triggered

if Mr Trump commits further violations in future, up to and

including permanent removal of his pages and accounts,” Clegg added.