Five people died as a result of the day's violence. 6, 2021, to try to keep Congress from certifying that President Joe Biden legally won the 2020 presidential election have said they were stoked on by Trump's social media posts. YouTube said that if Trump violates its policies again, then the company could reimpose the ban. "The world has cause to be alarmed over how much power social media companies hold, especially when politicians like President Trump are able to use their products to incite an attempted coup," said Joan Donovan, an expert on online extremism at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Under new CEO Elon Musk, Twitter restored his account in November, but Trump has yet to post there. The ban came after he posted a video where he said the speech he made at a rally with his supporters before the attack was "totally appropriate." At the time, YouTube didn't clarify whether the ban would be permanent.įacebook and Twitter also suspended Trump after the siege on the Capitol. It said he violated its policies against inciting violence. 6 violent attack on the Capitol, YouTube suspended Trump's channel on its platform. Trump is running again for president in 2024, and heavily used social media platforms in his successful bid for the White House in 2016, as well as during his four years in office. "We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, balancing that with the importance of preserving the opportunity for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run up to an election," she said in a statement to NPR. Leslie Miller, YouTube's vice president of Public Policy, said the decision to reinstate the former president was taken after the company considered the possibility of him inciting actual violence.
Trump also posted "I'M BACK!" and the video to Facebook, which lifted its ban on his content in January. The 11-second video shows Trump talking at a rally saying, "Sorry to keep you waiting. Former President Donald Trump can once again upload new videos to YouTube, the company said on Friday.Īnd within hours of the announcement, he posted his first video titled, "I'M BACK!"
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