Two years after his exclusion, Donald Trump will be able to return to YouTube
Donald Trump had already been readmitted to TwitterFacebook and Instagram over the past few months. JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERS
The main condition for his return to the platform was a drop in the “risk of violence”. The former president of the United States had been readmitted on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
online video platform Youtube announced on Friday that it would end the suspension of Donald Trump, two years after the exclusion of the former American president following the assault on the Capitol. “Starting today, the Donald J. Trump Channel is no longer subject to restrictions“, said the American giant on Twitter. The Republican, presidential candidate of 2024, had been excluded from the social network in January 2021, while he was still in power, for having encouraged his supporters during the attack on Congress in Washington.
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This unprecedented decision was imitated at the time by most mainstream social networks, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. To justify its decision, YouTube said on Friday that it assessed “the risk of violence“, while taking into account the importance, for voters, of hearing “equally major national candidates“.
Donald Trump had already been readmitted to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram over the past few months. However, he has not yet published a message on his accounts, communicating mainly through his own platform, Truth Social.
