“We believe that the ban on President Trump’s account on Facebook has dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse,” the campaign wrote in a Tuesday letter, a copy of which was reviewed by NBC News.
The campaign, which did not threaten a lawsuit, talked about the importance of free speech and petitioned Meta for a “meeting to discuss President Trump’s prompt reinstatement to the platform.”
NBC News reported that a Meta spokesperson declined to comment about Trump, but added the company “will announce a decision in the coming weeks in line with the process we laid out.”
[The campaign will want to make use of Trump’s account, but will Trump himself? He has investors to serve in Truth Social, and one has to imagine that part of those agreements rested on exclusivity, or some large degree of it.
UPDATE: A longtime reader points me to this Mediaite report from last May about Trump’s contractual obligations to Truth Social investors. He has a lot more room to post elsewhere than commonly thought. — Ed]
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