About a week after they were blocked due to his reaction to the riots on Capitol Hill, the American president's pages on social media returned to activity • It is not yet known if he has access to them
Donald Trump's official Facebook and Instagram pages were restored today (Saturday), about a week after they were blocked by social media following the US president's sluggish response to last week's Capitol Hill riots, in which five people were killed.
The riots on Capitol Hill, last week // Photo: Reuters
Trump's Instagram page has 24.6 million followers and his Facebook page has 33 million followers.
Trump's last post on his Facebook page was posted Jan. 6, and included his call for protesters in Washington to refrain from violence and listen to police instructions.
On the same day, the last post was posted on his Instagram page, which dealt with a rally that took place the next day.
As mentioned, the pages have been restored, but it is not yet known whether Trump himself has gained re-access to these accounts.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced that due to Trump's alleged intention to disrupt the administration's proper move toward Joe Biden's term on January 20, the social networking giant will continue to freeze his account "until further notice, and at least until the end of his term." .
Because Facebook also owns Instagram, the U.S. president's pages have been blocked on both social networks.
Jack Dorsey, the founder and CEO of Twitter, posted a series of tweets this week that dealt with the blocking of the US president from the social network.
He claimed that he "did not feel proud of the move", but that he was asked to be right: "We were faced with extraordinary circumstances, which forced us to concentrate all our actions on public safety," Dorsey tweeted.
"However, blocking an account has real and significant consequences. Although there are exceptional cases, I feel that blocking an account is our failure to promote a healthy discourse. It is our time to reflect on our actions and our environment. This action may be required at this moment, but in the long run it will be "Destructive to the purpose and lofty values of the Internet. A company that makes a business decision about its own recession is different from that of a government that denies access, even though it can sometimes feel the same."
