JUST IN: Facebook has announced that former President Donald Trump would be suspended from its platform until at least January 2023 — two years from when he was initially suspended
Facebook said it will then assess the circumstances to see if he should be allowed back on.The company said in a post Friday that once the two years is up, it"will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded. We will evaluate external factors, including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markers of civil unrest.
" The change comes in the wake of the unprecedented step the company took of indefinitely suspending Trump in January -- and the way its independent oversight board rebuked it for the arbitrary nature of that suspension. Politicians have typically been given leeway on Facebook because the company operated on the assumption that their posts were newsworthy and part of the public debate. As a result, the company did not apply its regular rules to their posts.
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