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    Meta allows Donald Trump back on Facebook and Instagram

    The social media company is letting a two-year ban, imposed after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, expire.
    by Shannon Bond Jan 25, 2023 4 minutes
    Suspending former President Donald Trump's account was the most high-profile and controversial content moderation decision Facebook parent Meta has ever made.
    Updated January 25, 2023 at 6:24 PM ET

    Former President Donald Trump will be allowed to return to Facebook and Instagram more than two years after he was banned for inciting violence when his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

    Trump's accounts will be reinstated "in the coming weeks" with new guardrails "to deter repeat offenses," Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Facebook's parent company Meta, said on Wednesday.

    The "serious risk to public safety" that led Meta to suspend Trump in January 2021 "has sufficiently receded," Clegg wrote in a blog post. Still, he said, Trump would

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