{"id":127407,"date":"2021-06-03T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T09:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=127407"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T09:39:18","slug":"facebook-forced-to-deny-rumours-donald-trumps-ban-is-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/facebook-forced-to-deny-rumours-donald-trumps-ban-is-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook forced to deny rumours Donald Trump's ban is lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"
Facebook has denied that Donald Trump has been allowed back on to its platform after rumours spread that the former president’s ban was lifted.<\/p>\n
Trump was banned from many social media sites following his posts during the storming of the Capitol on January 6.<\/p>\n
A number of conservative commentators falsely believed he had been restored to Instagram and Facebook on Wednesday after noticing his pages were viewable, unlike his Twitter account.<\/p>\n
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Facebook has denied that Donald Trump has been allowed back on to its platform after rumours spread that the former president’s ban was lifted<\/p>\n
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Facebook’s policy communications director Andy Stone responded to the rumours on Twitter, where he denied Trump’s reinstatement<\/p>\n
But even those the pages are visible to the public, they are still frozen for Trump, meaning he cannot post on them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His last post on Facebook remains his final message on January 6 in which he said: ‘I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence!\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order \u2013 respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!’<\/p>\n
His previous posts are now flooded with messages from supporters welcoming back to the social media sites despite his continued censorship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Facebook’s policy communications director Andy Stone responded to the rumours on Twitter, where he denied Trump’s reinstatement.<\/p>\n
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On Instagram, Trump’s final post in January is now flooded with comments welcoming him back to the site<\/p>\n
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The president’s most recent post on Facebook, asking for Capitol protesters to be peaceful, has also received new comments falsely believing Trump had returned<\/p>\n
He said: ‘Nothing about the status of President Trump’s presence on our platform has changed. He remains indefinitely suspended.’<\/p>\n
It comes as Trump\u00a0permanently shut down the website he used to get around his social media ban and where he posted his statements after just 29 days.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ‘From the Desk of Donald J. Trump’ has been scrubbed from the former president’s website and instead the URL redirects users to a page to sign up for his email and text alerts.<\/p>\n A Trump adviser told The Washington Post that Trump shut it down because he didn’t like that the site was being mocked and didn’t garner a large readership.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Senior Trump aide Jason Miller told CNBC that the site ‘will not be returning.’<\/p>\n ‘It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,’ he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trump was banned from Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg (left) and Twitter by Jack Dorsey (right) following his posts during the storming of the Capitol on January 6<\/p>\n The site was set up amid the former president being banned from social media sites but it received criticism from those who claimed it was a sad excuse for an alternative to these other platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n A GOP strategist predicted on Twitter that it was shut down as ‘a precursor to him joining another social media platform?’<\/p>\n ‘Yes, actually, it is. Stay tuned!’ Miller confirmed in a response to the post.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trump promised after being booted from his accounts that he would set up his own social media site, which he insists is different from the ‘desk’ blog.<\/p>\n Miller claimed he is ‘hoping to have more information on the broader efforts soon’ regarding the new social media site.<\/p>\n ‘I do not have a precise awareness of timing,’ he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Trump used ‘From the desk of Donald J. Trump’ to post all of his statements after he was booted from social media like Facebook and Twitter after the January 6 Capitol attack, for which he was ultimately impeached for ‘inciting an insurrection’<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The URL for the ‘desk’ site now redirects users to a page where they can sign up to receive text and email alerts from the former president<\/p>\n Trump unveiled his new blog last month billed as a ‘communication platform’ for the former president to interact more directly with supporters and the public after losing his access to other platforms.<\/p>\n A Twitter account set up to repost those statements verbatim was immediately shut down by CEO Jack Dorsey.\u00a0<\/p>\n The ‘desk’ site, however, also gave visitors the ability to easily share the statements for themselves onto social media platforms.<\/p>\n Due to Trump’s messaging for a new social media platform, many felt this new website was him unveiling that.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A GOP strategist predicted the site getting shut down is a preview for the former president ‘joining another social media platform,’ to which Miller confirmed ‘Yes, actually, it is. Stay tuned!’<\/p>\n He and his team pushed back against this, however, claiming it was just a way to pump out his statements, which were also sent out through the email account for his Save America political action committee.<\/p>\n Miller said at the time in his own Twitter post that the ‘Desk’ page was ‘a great resource’ to find Trump’s statements.<\/p>\n He clarified ‘this is not a new social media platform.’<\/p>\n
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