Facebook suspends Trump until January 2023

Facebook suspends Donald Trump until January 7, 2003. The ‘disqualification’ will last exactly two years: the suspension began with the exclusion of the former president because of his comments which – according to Facebook – helped to incite the crowd to storm Congress on January 6. After two years, Facebook will decide on a possible reintegration by evaluating the “risk to the safety of the public”. If the suspension is lifted, Trump will still be subjected to “tight sanctions” in case of new violations, explains a post on the Facebook website. “We knew that any sanctions that we applied, or not applied, would be controversial – wrote Facebook’s deputy director of global affairs, Nick Clegg – we know that today’s decision will be criticized by many opposing political parties, but the our job is to make decisions. ” The sanctions against Trump have been taken as part of new guidelines established by Facebook against public figures on the occasion of violence and riots.