The company said Trump would be eligible for reinstatement in January 2023, when it will then look to experts to decide “whether the risk to public safety has receded,” Facebook said. The company barred the former president from the service after comments he made about the Capitol riots.
Facebook also said it was ending a policy that treated content by politicians differently from that of other users. The policy had previously been used to allow Trump, and other global leaders, to post content that violated Facebook’s rules.
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