He urges the platform to “promote genuine dialogue, not silence a presidential candidate.”
Donald Trump has formally requested to be allowed back on Facebook, his campaign team said today, calling for a presidential candidate not to be “silenced”.
The former US president’s lawyer has sent a letter to the platform’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, asking him “for a meeting to discuss the speedy return” of Donald Trump to the social network.
“We think the suspension of President Trump’s Facebook account has fundamentally distorted and limited the public debate,” Scott Gast said in the letter sent Tuesday.
He urges the platform to “promote genuine dialogue, not silence a presidential candidate.”
The former Republican leader was banned from the social networking site for two years after his supporters attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Facebook had estimated that Donald Trump could not return until “risks to the public’s safety have disappeared”.
When asked by AFP today, a spokesman for Meta, the network’s parent company, promised a decision on the former president’s fate “within the next few weeks”.
Trump already returned to Twitter on November 19, 2022, four days after announcing his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. However, he has yet to post any messages on that account, communicating mostly through his own platform, Truth Social.
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