On January 25, two years after Trump was suspended for inciting violence on January 6, 2021, Meta announced that the company would be reinstating his accounts on its platforms. In deciding that Trump could return, the company determined that “the risk to public safety,” which it set out as the measure for ending his ban, has “sufficiently receded” — a flawed assessment given Trump’s history of pushing dangerous misinformation. The accounts were ultimately restored on February 9, with Trump posting on Facebook again on March 17 and running ads again on March 18.
In terms of interaction numbers, Trump's indictment-response post is second only to his original announcement after he returned to the platform. According to CrowdTangle, the post has earned more interactions than any other post from news and politics pages in the last 24 hours.
Like many of Trump’s posts made prior to his suspension (and the posts he continued to make on Truth Social during that time), the statement contains numerous allegations of supposed wrongdoing against him by Democrats and others — similar to the false election claims that helped spur the events of January 6.
Trump also posted the statement to Truth Social, marking yet another occasion when he has shared content across the platforms. For instance, Media Matters reported earlier that in the last two days, Trump’s Facebook page has run 62 ads that featured his Truth Social posts — meaning Meta is profiting from them.
