YouTube restores Donald Trump’s account months after Meta, Twitter suspends suspension on other social media sites
Alphabet-owned YouTube on Tuesday said it had lifted restrictions on former US President Donald Trump’s channel after more than two years of suspension following deadly riots on Capitol Hill on May 6. 1 year 2021.
Meta . Platform Trump’s Restoration Facebook And Instagram account earlier this year, while he Twitter The account was restored by new owner Elon Musk in November.
“We have carefully assessed the risk of continued violence in the real world, while balancing the opportunity for voters to hear equally from the nation’s major candidates in the run-up to the election. sent.” YouTube say in one tweetrefers to the move.
The video-streaming platform banned Trump in 2021 for violating its policy of inciting violence after his supporters stormed the US Capitol as Congress began certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the election. nominate the president.
Social media is the primary means of reaching voters and raising funds, and can give an impetus to Trump, who will run for president again in 2024. Trump has more than 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube. and another 34 million followers on Facebook and 23 million on Instagram.
But the former president has yet to post on Meta-owned platforms or Twitter. Instead, he sticks to his platform Truth Social, the social networking platform he founded in late 2021, where he has nearly 5 million followers.
Opponents of Trump point to the messages he has posted on Truth Social as proof that he continues to pose the same risk that prompted various social media platforms to suspend him in the first place. .
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