Time.news – Former US President Donald Trump has asked to be able to return to Facebook. This was reported by his campaign team, urging not to “silence a presidential candidate”. The lawyer of the former American president has sent a letter to the founder of the platform Mark Zuckerberg, asking him “un meeting to discuss the rapid readmission” of Donald Trump on the social network.
“We believe the suspension of President Trump’s Facebook account has radically distorted and narrowed public debate,” Scott Gast said in the letter. The text urges the social platform to “promote real dialogue, not silence a presidential candidate”.
The former Republican president had been suspended from social media for two years after the assault by his supporters on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Facebook had estimated that Donald Trump could only return when the “public safety risks disappeared”. Interviewed by AFP, a spokesman for Meta promised a decision “in the next few weeks” on the fate of the former president.