Donald Trump asks Florida judge to force Twitter
to reinstate account
The request follows the former president suing
Twitter, Facebook and Google in July accusing them of censoring conservative
voices
Sat 2 Oct
2021 01.15 EDT
Donald
Trump, the former US president, has asked a federal judge in Florida to force
Twitter to reinstate his account.
In July
Trump sued Twitter, Facebook and Google, as well as their chief executives,
alleging they unlawfully silence conservative viewpoints.
Trump’s
request for a preliminary injunction against Twitter was filed late on Friday
in Miami, claiming the social media company cancelled his account in January
under pressure from his political rivals in Congress, the report by Bloomberg
News said.
Twitter
declined to comment. Trump’s representatives did not immediately respond to
Reuters request for comment outside business hours.
Trump lost
his social media megaphone this year after the companies said he violated their
policies against glorifying violence.
Hundreds of
his supporters launched a deadly assault on the US Capitol on 6 January, after
Trump in a speech repeated his false claims that his election defeat was the
result of widespread fraud, an assertion rejected by multiple courts, state
election officials and members of his own administration.
Twitter
“exercises a degree of power and control over political discourse in this
country that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented, and profoundly
dangerous to open democratic debate”, Bloomberg quoted the former president’s
request as saying.
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