Sat 02 October 2021:
Bloomberg News reported late Friday that former US President Donald Trump had asked a federal judge in Florida to order Twitter to reactivate his account.
In July, Trump filed a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, as well as their CEOs, alleging that they illegally silence conservative voices.
According to the story, Trump filed a preliminary injunction against Twitter late Friday in Miami, saying that the social media platform deactivated his account in January due to pressure from his congressional opponents.
Twitter did not respond to requests for comment. Outside of work hours, Trump’s representatives did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
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 January 6 after Trump in a speech repeating 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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