Facebook won’t rush the review of its Donald Trump ban

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According to a new report, Facebook won't review its decision to ban Donald Trump even if he runs for office again.

Nick Clegg, president of global affairs for Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said in an interview that the company would not make a decision on Trump accounts until January 7th, 2023. Meta told The Verge that the timetable had not been altered.

As Trump is expected to run for president again in 2024, he could possibly announce his candidacy prior to this year's November elections. The investigations by the FBI and January 6th committee could be complicated by an early announcement. If Trump announces before January 7th, it will put Facebook in a difficult position of maintaining its ban on the presumptive presidential nominee.

Since the attack on the Capitol last year, Trump has not been allowed to use social media. Facebook said that Trump's posts were in violation of the company's policy on violence. The official Trump accounts on major social media platforms were taken down that week. When the risk of violence inspired by his account decreases, the ban on his account will be lifted, according to a post on the website.

As Meta released its plan to tackle election misinformation across its social media platforms on Tuesday, Clegg commented. According to the company's Tuesday post, Meta's plan largely mirrors its protocols used throughout the 2020 election, like removing misinformation about voting dates, locations, and times.

Facebook is preparing to fight content related to the integrity of US election systems, according to the leader of the Liberal Democrats.

While some of the challenges in 2020 were unique, we are once again prepared to respond by applying labels that connect people with reliable information. In the 2020 election cycle we received feedback from users that these labels were over-used, so in the event that we need to deploy them this time around our intention is to do so in a targeted and strategic way

Other social media platforms have recently announced their plans for the upcoming election. TikTok's Election Center was released on Wednesday and is emphasizing its ban against political advertising. A new program for politicians to get around email filters is one of the things that will be brought back by the micro-blogging site.

Trump built his own platform called Truth Social after partnering with the parent company. Despite the platform's official launch in February, Trump hasn't been able to accumulate the large following he had on social media.