Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday that outgoing President Donald Trump is “indefinitely” banned from Facebook and Instagram. The president has 32 million Facebook followers and 24 million Instagram followers.
The ban comes one day after the U.S. Capitol came under siege by a group of the president’s supporters, sending lawmakers into lockdown and leaving four people dead.
“Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies,” the Facebook founder wrote. “We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech.