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 years. Now that Meta has decided to allow the former president back onto its platforms, it is also rolling out a new policy for those it is designating as public figures. That’s defined as government officials, political candidates and people with over 1 million followers. But even with these new regulations, many fear Facebook has not made…
