Meta reverses policy that kept Rittenhouse from Facebook and Instagram

Officials for Facebook parent company Meta said on Wednesday that they have reversed a policy that suspended Rittenhouse’s social media accounts and blocked his name in certain searches back August 2020, days after he fatally shot two people and injured another during last summer’s racial justice protests in Kenosha, Wis.

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Last month, Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges, including three homicide charges and two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment.

“After the verdict in Kenosha we have rolled back the restrictions we had in place that limited search results from returning content related to key terms including Kyle Rittenhouse,” Andy Stone, a Meta spokesman said in a statement.

For more than a year, searches for the shooter’s name came up empty, pulling up blank pages.

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