Former US President Donald Trump.

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Social media conglomerate Meta announced Wednesday that it will reinstate former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts

after two years of suspension.

According to the company, the former president will recover his accounts, which had millions of followers, in the coming weeks.

However, they remarked that they have put in place "protection measures to prevent the offenses from being repeated."

Those measures will include "higher penalties for repeat offenses, penalties that will apply to other public figures whose accounts are reinstated from suspensions related to civil unrest," according to the Meta protocol.

"The public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying, the good, the bad and the ugly, so they can make informed decisions at the polls," said Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs.

"But that doesn't mean there aren't limits to what people can say on our platform," he said.

Meta suspended Trump from his platforms on January 7, 2021, a day after hundreds of his supporters stormed the Washington Capitol.

At that time, the technology giant claimed that the Republican's posts could incite more violence, so he decided to cancel his accounts until January 2023.

It was reported last week that Trump planned to return to Facebook and also to Twitter

, where his account was reinstated by Elon Musk on November 19, ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

For his part, the former US president spoke about Meta's decision on his Truth Social social media platform.

"Facebook, which has lost billions of dollars in value since it 'de-platformed' your favorite president, me, has just announced that they are reinstating my account. Such a thing should never happen again to a sitting president, nor to anyone who doesn't deserve it," he wrote.

(With information from RT in Spanish)