Meta announced plans to reinstate the Facebook and Instagram accounts of former President Donald Trump in the "coming weeks. " The tech giant suspended Trump from both platforms a day after the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, citing the possibility of additional violence.  In an announcement yesterday, Meta said it will reinstate Trump's accounts after determining that the public safety risk has “sufficiently receded." It plans to establish "new guardrails" to prevent what it called "repeat offenses" moving forward. Any violations of Meta's content policies could result in additional suspensions of a month to two years, according to Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs. In a blog post yesterday, Clegg said the U.S. public should be informed about what politicians say — "the good, the bad, and the ugly" — in order to be informed when voting. Prior to the suspension, Trump had 34 million followers on Facebook and 23 million on Instagram. In a recent letter to Meta, Trump’s 2024 reelection campaign urged the tech giant to reinstate his accounts, arguing that the ban has "dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse." In November, Twitter restored Trump's account, which was also banned in January 2021, though the former president has yet to tweet, preferring to use his Truth Social platform instead.