Trump's accounts have been suspended for two years on Facebook.

Former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts have been suspended for two years by Facebook Inc.

In January, he was banned indefinitely from both sites in the wake of posts he made about the US Capitol riots, but Facebook's Oversight Board slammed the indefinite ban last month.

Mr Trump's actions were described by Facebook as "a serious violation of our standards."

Mr Trump called the measure a "insult" to the millions of people who voted for him in the presidential election last year.

Facebook's action coincides with the expiration of a policy that exempted lawmakers from some content moderation regulations.

It stated that politicians would no longer be immune from false or abusive materials because their views were noteworthy.

According to Facebook's vice-president of global affairs Nick Clegg, Mr Trump's ban was effective from the date of the initial suspension on 7 January.

"Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr Trump's suspension, we think his actions constituted a serious violation of our rules that warranted the most severe penalty available," the statement continued.

"If we conclude that there is still a substantial risk to public safety, we will extend the ban for a certain amount of time and re-evaluate until the risk has passed."

Mr Trump will be subjected to "a rigorous set of quickly escalating sanctions" upon his return, according to Mr Clegg's statement.

"Facebook's judgement is an insult to the record-setting 75 million people, plus many others, who voted for us," Mr Trump said in a statement released by his Save America political action committee.

"They should not be permitted to get away with their censorship and silence, and we will eventually triumph. This abuse will no longer be tolerated in our country!"

Mr Trump assailed Facebook's founder in a second statement on the two-year ban.

"There will be no more dinners with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife the next time I'm in the White House, at his request," the former president remarked. "It'll be all business!" says the narrator.

Mr. Trump will be able to return to Facebook before the presidential election in 2024 as a result of Facebook's decision.

It also comes as he prepares to hold large-scale in-person rallies, which were a hallmark of his presidential campaigns and presidency. According to local media, one of his first stops will be in Dallas, Texas, in early July.

Earlier this week, it was revealed that Mr Trump's communications platform, From the Desk of Donald J Trump, had been permanently shut down in the aftermath of his social media prohibitions.

Mr Trump has been banned from Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitch, and other social media platforms in the aftermath of the January riots, in addition to Facebook, which has over two billion monthly users.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Trump admirer, enacted the first bill in the US penalizing digital corporations for deplatforming politicians last month. (Source: BBC)