Trump campaign asks Meta to reverse Facebook, Instagram suspensions

Former President Donald Trump is lobbying Meta to get back on Facebook and Instagram in order to boost his third consecutive run for the White House.

The 76-year-old Republican’s 2024 campaign petitioned parent company Meta to unlock Trump’s accounts and allow him to post directly to his 34 million followers on Facebook and 25 million followers on Instagram after he was suspended from the platforms the day after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

“[W]e believe that the ban on President Trump’s account on Facebook has dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse,” campaign general counsel Scott Gast wrote in a Tuesday letter obtained by The Post and addressed to Meta executives Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg and Joel Kaplan.

“We also believe that a continued ban would basically constitute … a deliberate effort by a private company to silence Mr. Trump’s political voice,” Gast continued. “Moreover, every day that President Trump’s political voice remains silenced furthers an inappropriate interference in the American political and election process.”