On behalf of Change the Terms, a coalition of more than five dozen civil rights, human rights,
tech policy and consumer protection organizations, we urge you to permanently instate Meta’s
ban on former President Donald Trump.
As representatives of 29 civil society and civil rights groups, we write to oppose Donald Trump’s reinstatement to Meta’s platforms. Meta, then Facebook, deplatformed Trump following his proliferation of election disinformation and calls for violence that led to the insurrection on January 6, 2021.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, could allow former President Donald Trump back on its platforms as soon as January 7 — just two years after he was suspended for his role in inciting the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
New review by Accountable Tech finds more than 350 posts from Donald Trump on Truth Social are in violation of Facebook’s safety guidelines — the equivalent of nearly two prohibited posts every single day across a five month period.
In the last two weeks, Trump has posted on his own platform, Truth Social, at least 258 times, attacking his political foes, pushing election misinformation, and promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Truth Social, which has had an iOS app since February, is plagued by extreme content, QAnon adherents, and Trump’s own harmful rhetoric
After initially blocking Trump’s Truth Social app in its Play Store because it hosted violent threats, Google is now allowing people to download the App. This is just a step toward normalizing Trump’s embrace of extremist conspiracy theories and attempts to undermine electoral integrity. With this decision, we’re looking to other Google products like YouTube …
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As Meta considers whether to allow former President Donald Trump back on its platforms, his increasingly extreme behavior on his social media platform Truth Social — pushing misinformation and amplifying conspiracy theories — demonstrates the potential real-world harm that such a move would pose.
During today’s hearing, a January 6 rioter revealed the extent to which Trump and his social media posts influenced his actions, and the House select committee aired testimony from a former Twitter employee who admitted that the platform took a hands-off approach to former President Donald Trump. The testimonies highlight the real-life harm of Trump’s social media use – which the former president has never once apologized for.
During an interview at the Financial Times’ Future of the Car conference earlier today, Elon Musk — who has a pending deal with Twitter to buy the company — announced that he would “reverse the perma-ban” currently preventing former President Donald Trump from using the platform. Musk’s comments ignore both Trump’s previous social media behavior, in which he regularly pushed harmful misinformation and extreme rhetoric, and his continued promotion of election misinformation that incited the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Musk also revealed his fundamental lack of understanding of how much Trump’s presence on these social media platforms helped push misinformation to a large audience.
