San Francisco | Just over two years after Donald Trump’s accounts were suspended from Facebook and Instagram, Meta, the owner of the platforms, said on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) that it would reinstate the former president’s access to the social media services.

Mr Trump, who had the most followed account on Facebook when he was barred, would in the coming weeks regain access to his accounts that collectively had hundreds of millions of followers, Meta said. In November, Mr Trump’s account was also reinstated on Twitter, which had barred him since January 2021.