Trump Allegedly Linked to Facebook Outage, His Account gets Restored

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Facebook has restored Donald Trump's account after being prohibited from accessing it since January 2021.

The decision to restore Trump's Facebook account comes a day after the company's apps were completely blacked out for six hours.

The two-year ban on the former president's accounts was set to end in January 2023.

Before deciding whether to reinstate him, Facebook embarked on a reevaluation exercise to ensure that the risk Trump posed to public safety was receded.

"We will evaluate external factors, including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markets of civil unrest," Facebook said in a post. "If we determine that there is still a serious risk to public safety, we will extend the restriction for a set period and continue to reevaluate until that risk has receded."

Facebook suspended Trump's accounts after he was linked to the January 6 insurgency at the US Capitol.

His Facebook account was allegedly used to incite violence, which Facebook said was a breach of their community standards.

Facebook rushed to revoke the restriction and restored the 45th US President's account only a few months into the two-year suspension period in a bizarre turn of events.

Based on his previous comments, some believe Trump was aware of the global outage that Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram were experiencing.

"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!" Trump said in January.

Mithamo Muchiri, in a Facebook post, questioned why the judgment came only a day after the outage was experienced, given that the ban was intended to be reviewed in 2023.

"They had blocked him in January of this year and had promised to do a review in 2023 on whether to open it," Mithamo said in a Facebook post. "Does Trump know something about yesterday's predicament?"

Some saw Zuckerberg's action as an attempt to avoid the consequences of Trump's re-election, based on Trump's earlier statements.

"Next time I'm in the White House, there will be no more dinners, at his request, with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife," the former president said in January. "It will be all business!"

Facebook is still yet to make an official statement explaining their decision.

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