Google has added former US president Donald Trump’s Fact Social app to Play Retailer almost two months after it banned the social media platform on account of a violation of its content material moderation insurance policies.

Apps that includes on Google’s Play Retailer that host user-generated content material (UGC) are required to have content-moderation insurance policies which forestall unlawful content material in addition to those who incite violence or are thought-about hate speech.

Google additionally requires apps to supply a sturdy in-app system for reporting objectionable content material and customers, and a system to take motion in opposition to such content material or customers.

“Apps that comprise or characteristic UGC, together with apps that are specialised browsers or shoppers to direct customers to a UGC platform, should implement strong, efficient, and ongoing UGC moderation,” Google famous in its Play Retailer insurance policies.

In August, Google had mentioned Fact Social was being saved from Android telephones on account of content material moderation issues the platform hadn’t addressed then.

“On 19 August we notified Fact Social of a number of violations of normal insurance policies of their present app submission and reiterated that having efficient techniques for moderating user-generated content material is a situation of our phrases of service for any app to go reside on Google Play,” a Google spokesperson had mentioned.

On Wednesday, Axios reported that Google had permitted the app, which then quickly went reside for obtain on the Play Retailer.

Fact Social was launched in February as an iOS app and continues to be out there on Apple’s platforms.

It was launched primarily as a method for the previous president and his supporters to proceed to speak and organise, after he was banned from Twitter, Fb and different social media platforms within the aftermath of the Jan 6 Capitol riots.

Fact Social was marketed as a free speech app with extra permissive insurance policies than different mainstream social media apps.

However it bumped into a number of hurdles for its content material moderation insurance policies, together with violations of insurance policies requiring apps to ban content material comparable to bodily threats and incitement to violence.

With almost half of US smartphone customers counting on Google’s Android working system, the brand new transfer means extra folks may obtain Trump’s app.