Former president Donald Trump turned to his social media platform Truth Social to attack a familiar target: former Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman.
Former president Donald Trump turned to his social media platform Truth Social this week to attack a familiar target: former Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman.
Freeman's lawyer, Von DuBose, said in a statement that the claims that Freeman was involved in falsifying ballots "have been proven false over and over again" but that her life has been upended and she still feels threatened. The company then shortened the suspension to two years and said, when that period was over, it would assess whether the public safety risk had subsided enough to restore his account. Those two years end Saturday.
"These platforms are in a difficult position of deciding whether they're going to make their audience available only to one candidate but not another," said Nate Persily, a professor at Stanford Law School who specializes in election issues and free speech. Democratic lawmakers including Rep. Adam B. Schiff and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse urged Meta last month to extend Trump's suspension.
Later that evening, as police secured the Capitol, Trump posted a written statement on Facebook claiming that "a sacred landslide election victory" had been "viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly unfairly treated for so long." He later told them to go home but to remember the day forever. Meta removed that post, too, for violating its rules and blocked him from posting for 24 hours. The next day, the company suspended Trump indefinitely.
Clegg, who has taken on an increasingly visible role in overseeing the company's public policy decisions, said then that after the two-year period, the company would turn to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded. He added that the company would take into consideration "external factors, including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markers of civil unrest.
But some advocates and analysts caution against drawing too many conclusions from the lack of violence during the midterms, because presidential races have a way of focusing the public's attention on political movements that congressional races do not.
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