Meta Allows Trump Back on Facebook and Instagram

I do not support Meta's decision to let the trump once again use Facebook or any supposedly 'neutral' mass media platform to willfully and intentionally lie to people, foment hate, push unfounded conspiracy theories, atttack his opponents with intentional disinformation, or use innuendo and half-facts - all only to promote himself and gather a following inspired by his lies that appeal to their subconscious biases..

'Freedom of speech' is not the same as intentionally lying for one's personal self-benefit. That is called 'fraud'.

Facebook was a critical tool used by the trump to gather the people interested in tearing down our government to converge on the Captol on January 6th.

The trump has been shown to have conclusively known that he lost a free and fair election by the courts, by his staff, by his cabinet members and by his legal team - and yet still today he claims that the election was rigged against him and fraudulent.

There is no basis to think that he won't do the same thing again. As a former president embroiled in all sorts of legal and ethical controversy, people will follow him and unfortunately, some will believe the nonsense that he spews,

If I were the Meta 'master', I would only allow the trump back on the platform if he publicly made a nationwide acknowledgment that he lost a free and fair election and apologizes to the country for the damage that he has done.

Unfortuantely, Meta makes a lot money by gathering a lot of web traffic to their site through hosting controversial figures that can enrage the populace. And that is why Meta will eventually fail - due to their own greed to generate outrageously profitable website traffic instead of proving a valuable public resource for keeping in meanigful contact with others. When immediate cash flow is the driving factor instead of quality service provided, there are few businesses that can survive in the longer term. 

I only wish that FaceBook and other social media platforms were more vigilant against misinformation. While DJT was spreading misinformation and was stopped, there are millions more, many just Russian bots & trolls still out there.

I wonder if DJT will actually return to FaceBook after investing so much into Truth Social. Seems like he would support his own platform by not using other platforms.

I will not support or vote for our former President. But it is a free country, with freedom of speech for all. I defended that with my military service, he didn't. 

I don't and never have used fb. 

Though I expect at some point T will start using it, but it's my understanding he is contractually obligated to post on ts, x number of hours before anywhere else. Given he doesn't care about contracts, that may go out the window later, but for now, I expect he might wallow in his own cesspool. 

Honestly, I really don't care!

He is going to be so hamstrung that he will not be able to say very much. I dropped my Facebook account back in 2019 about a week before election night. In an attempt to put some humor on Facebook I saw where people were worrying about long line where even food and water would need to be served. I stated the new change was that on Tuesday the republicans would vote and on Wednesday the democrats would vote. 

I got a nasty message from Facebook saying that I had just violated their HATE SPEECH POLICY. That I needed to delete the post of have my account deleted. Thought about it for five minutes and deleted my account. I got a confirmation that the account was going to be deleted unless I signed back into my account within 30 days. I haven't been back. 

I don't have an instagram account either.

I think everyone has the right to free speech. 

Well, Zuck will do what he wants, but I cancelled my account for good when this happened!   If everyone else did the same you would see results.

I support refusing to provide onloine space for anyone guiklty of insurrection and support of insurrectionists in this coountry.  That includes #45 and several sitting congressmen, among others. 

Even insects are smarter than dumbkopf followers! 
Pompeo characterizes Jan. 6 as 'a peaceful transition of power' from Trump to Biden

Why not use social media to do something good to bring our country together, to move forward together 

More lies from the consummate liar........

Everyone should be able to express their views on shared platforms.  If you do not want to see it, block or mute it.

I think it is sad that people cannot be tolerant of differing views, regardless of whether they support or disagree with the points.  Discriminating against some people to the point where you have to shut them out of public conversation or get them in trouble makes the people doing it no better and sometimes even worse than those expressing their views. 

For those who disagree, replace trump with a representative of another group of people and tell me that is ok to silence them because part of the nation thought it was ok. There is a history of powerful groups or people silencing others from expressing views with words in the public square. Has it ever been the right thing to do? 

This isn't advocating forcing a viewpoint on others, just alllowing them to be able to state their views without fear or retribution. 

He deserves nothing but a jail cell.

This person has a history of lying and has never retracted his most dangerous lies. He has no business using this platform to deceive. Politicians should bear a higher, not lower, duty of ruthfulness.

Hit him with the ban hammer

I would'nt be opposed to his return if he were treated as any other user. but he won't be fact checked, aparently, he won't have to live up to the community standards the rest of do on the platform.

trump is a liar, crook, and con. he will use the platform to spread more lies, with no evivdence, and  as a way to continue to raise money from his moronic base.

We saw waht he did on Facebook and Instagram before.  We see what he does on his own social media platform.  Why should we expect anything different now!

WHY let an election denier, Jan 6th RING LEADER, liar, tax evader, womanizer, white nationalist  back on????????????

With the return of an insurrectionist to Facebook I pledge to not support any companies that advertise on that platform and urge others to do the same.

Political and State leaders should not be banned, especially for partisan reasons. Even if you disagree with them it's important that the people the lead/represent hear what they have to say.

Yes! The liberal left have created lie after lie on Trump. Fake dossier, a resurrection that the left claim it's worse than the civil war when it was staged by FBI agents . The House will soon release all the actual videos instead of the ones Pelosi and her nazis picked out. 
 America is about FREEDOM where people are supposed to be able to express their point of view and say how they feel. It's not about censorship and the liberals are all about that. They are the new National Socialists Party of Amerika 

Trump tried to overthrow the government. Why isn't this man being prosecuted?

100% Support 

Trump has broken about every law that America has and incited an insurrection, and he gets back on Facebook?  But I am banned for life without recourse for stating during Trump's administration:  "Now I understand how Hitler came to power in Germany."

This country is fucked up!  Only the rich and famous and well connected have rights.