offenses. today s announcement bills on the hardware and commitment from countries around the world. that s what this is about. helping ukraine defend, and protect ukrainian land. it is not an offensive threat to russia. there is no offensive threat to russia. ukraine s president, zelenskyy, has been asking for these tanks for many months. today, he thanked president biden on twitter and said this, quote, it is an important step on a path to victory. and russia, a spokesman for vladimir putin called the allies plan, quote, disastrous. the war has now been going on for 11 long and brutal months. the day, after weeks of fighting, ukraine said its forces had retreated from the small town of soledar in eastern ukraine. this move brings russia closer to taking a key bigger city in the region. and it is expected that russia will launch a major military offensive in the next few months.
facebook and instagram accounts will be reinstated and the coming weeks. the move comes two years after trump s accounts were suspended of her posts related to january 6th. our hallie jackson spoke with meadows nick clegg about the decision. if you compared to the circumstances which led to his original suspension, we think the risk to public safety has materially and significantly receded. but, that is also the reason why we are introducing those additional guardrails, to discourage him from breaking our rules going forward if he chooses to use facebook and instagram again. twitter owner elon musk allowed the former president back on to his platform in november, but so far, trump has not yet tweeted. joining me now to discuss, only the best, jake up and cara swisher, editor at large of new york magazine, and host of the pivot and on with cara swisher podcast.
trump s beloved truth social? and all the financial backers who helped build this thing? because they thought this was gonna be the far s shangrila led by trump himself? what a great business that s been. and not to say. you know i ve talked about this. it s been ridiculous. a lot of these businesses are ridiculous. you know, the good ones are seeing problems and having problems around advertising and usage, et cetera. and so, you know, it s just i don t know what to say about truth social. i think it s just it s gonna have trouble. let s just say. especially if he moves off of it. you know, these individualized specific sites, whether it s fat or whatever, they just don t seem to work. there s not enough people. and it s not enough yelling. even things like, you know, what s gonna happen here with facebook is what s happening on twitter right now. we have elon musk today, less than 24 hours, lebanon nick fuentes, a very controversial white supremacist figure, and
usage, et cetera. and so, you know, it s just i don t know what to say about truth social. i think it s just it s gonna have trouble. let s just say. especially if he moves off of it. you know, these individualized specific sites, whether it s fat or whatever, they just don t seem to work. there s not enough people. and it s not enough yelling. even things like, you know, what s gonna happen here with facebook is what s happening on twitter right now. we have elon musk today, less than 24 hours, lebanon nick fuentes, a very controversial white supremacist figure, and then you kick them off in the same day. so this is gonna feel like groundhog day over never get into these companies. and that s the last thing they can afford to do. but cat, elon musk s move with nick fuentes it straight of trump s playbook. just create a noise, just create conflict, just create drama so you read the news story. that s what he does, and that s what trump does. yeah. he seems to like attention. ye
rules. jake, what are these new guardrails that facebook has put in place? you know, they basically meant to the idea that because he has been a bad actor in the past, if he does it again, then he will be suspended again. that s what it boils down to that. they said that will basically be given another two year suspension. now, i ve been spending today basically going back to some of the things he s been saying on his social platform. truth social, ever since he was kicked off of twitter and facebook. and you know, according to these policies that they say they re going to be following for him, going forward, i mean, the truth social posts, right, are absolutely in violation of that already. he is openly retreating, or whatever the where it is, people talking about qanon, people posting made up, you know, conspiracy theories about this, that, and the other. he posted someone who in fact put up a manipulated post in the voice and face of his own daughter. i, mean the sky, as cars, as