Democrats are begging Meta, the parent company of Facebook, not to rescind its ban on former President Donald Trump.

What is the background?

One day after the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Trump had been suspended "indefinitely" from Facebook and Instagram.

In a Facebook post explaining the decision, Zuckerberg accused Trump of having used "our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government."

A Meta oversight board later upheld Trump's ban, extending it for two years from the original suspension. The earliest date it can be overturned is Jan. 7, 2023.