Staying true to his rep of being one of the most controversial politicians of all time, Donald Trump has gone ahead and gotten himself a two-year ban from Facebook.
The social media giant announced Trump’s ban in a statement, citing the former president’s “serious risk to public safety” as the reason for upgrading his current suspension from the platform.
“Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr. Trump’s suspension, we believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols. We are suspending his accounts for two years, effective from the date of the initial suspension on January 7 this year,” Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, wrote Friday in a blog post.
The two-year ban on Trump’s account comes as a part of new rules that have been implemented by the world’s largest social media platform. Facebook has announced that they are ending a policy of keeping posts by politicians up by default even if their speech broke its rules.
As mentioned in the statement, Trump was originally suspended from Facebook in January of this year, following the praise he posted in response to the insurrection at the Capitol. Of course, Trump has a thing or two to say about the then suspension.
“An insult to the record-setting 75M people, plus many others, who voted for us in the 2020 Rigged Presidential Election.” Trump wrote in an emailed statement.
“They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing, and ultimately, we will win. Our country can’t take this abuse anymore!” He added.
Not done with ‘defending’ his country, Trump also threw a barbed jab at Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.
“Next time I’m in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. It will be all business!”
Of course, there’s little doubt Trump will have a strong opinion about the news on his Facebook suspension turned ban. However, considering he’s already been banned from Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Snapchat, the question remains how exactly he’ll broadcast his polarising thoughts.
