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Facebook parent Meta said Wednesday it will restore former President Donald Trump 's personal account in the coming weeks, ending a two-year suspension it imposed in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The company said in a blog post it is adding "new guardrails" to ensure there are no "repeat offenders" who violate its rules, even if they are political candidates or world leaders.

Two climate activists glued their hands to the perspex covering of Picasso's anti-war painting "Massacre in Korea" in a Melbourne art gallery yesterday, police, protesters and the gallery said. The painting emerged unscathed.

Former U.S. president Donald Trump on Oct. 20 announced plans to launch his own social network, in the latest push to reclaim his internet dominance after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook in the wake of the Capitol insurrection.

Facebook battled dueling crises on Oct. 4 as potentially billions of users were impacted when its dominant social network went offline for seven hours, and the company fought against a whistleblower's damning revelations.

Twitter and Facebook suspended Donald Trump on Wednesday over posts accused of inflaming violence in the US Capitol, as social media scrambled to respond to mayhem by supporters buying into his baseless attacks on the integrity of the election.

Since the beginning of the year, Facebook deleted 5.4 billion fake accounts, the company announced.

"We have improved our ability to detect and block attempts to create fake, abusive accounts," the internet firm said in its latest transparency report.

One billion dollars for affordable housing will be donated by Facebook over the next decade. This will happen in California, the company said.

The leading social network is partnering with the state governor and other well-known project philanthropists to build up to 20,000 new homes for teachers, nurses and other workers.

National courts in Europe can now sanction online platforms by ordering the removal of defamatory content around the world. The European Court of Justice has come up with such a decision today in a case brought by a former Austrian politician.

Facebook has announced the creation of a Supervisory Board that will decide how to manage the social network. The company said the panel will look into its first case in 2020.

Facebook is exploring the possibilities to create its own cryptocurrency. This is reported by the online ''Cheddar'', which refers to its sources in the company.