Meta said it intends to remove restrictions it placed on former President Donald Trump’s Instagram and Facebook accounts in an effort to ensure parity among presidential candidates ahead of the 2024 presidential election between Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden, Axios’ Sara Fisher reports. “In assessing our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe that the American people should be able to hear from the nominees for president on the same basis,” Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg said in a statement. “In reaching this conclusion, we also considered that these penalties were a response to extreme and extraordinary circumstances, and have not had to be deployed,” he noted.
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