After Twitter, Facebook? Donald Trump has officially asked to be able to return to the social network, his campaign team said on Wednesday, calling not to “promote real dialogue, and not silence a presidential candidate”.
The lawyer for the former American president sent a letter to the founder of the platform Mark Zuckerberg, asking him for “a meeting to discuss the rapid readmission” of Donald Trump on the social network. “We believe that the suspension of President Trump’s Facebook account has radically distorted and restricted public debate”, argues Scott Gast in this missive, dated Tuesday.
A decision by Meta “in the coming weeks”
The former Republican leader had been suspended from the social network after the attack carried out by his supporters against the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Facebook had estimated that Donald Trump could only return when the “risks to public safety had disappeared” . Asked on Wednesday, a spokesperson for Meta, the network’s parent company, promised a decision “in the coming weeks”.
Donald Trump had already been readmitted to Twitter on November 19, 2022, four days after declaring his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. He has not yet posted a message on this account, however, communicating mainly through his own platform, Truth Social.