Trump, Meta and misinformation

NPR’s Michel Martin talks to Vivian Schiller, executive director of Aspen Digital, about Meta’s decision to reinstate Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Facebook, the world’s largest social network, is about to bring back one high-profile account to the ranks of its nearly 3 billion users – that of former President Donald Trump. Then-President Trump was suspended from Facebook and Instagram after the mob attack on the Capitol on January 6 for praising the violence that congressional investigators say he helped instigate. But that suspension came with an asterisk. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, would reevaluate the suspension in two

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