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Former PresidentDonald Trumpis continuing his quest to get back on social media, asking a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to restore his account, after the companysuspended it in Januaryfollowing the riots at the U.S. Capitol.
According to the AP, the filing seeks a preliminary injunction against both Twitter and its CEO, Jack Dorsey.
During his final weeks in office, then-President Trump’s verified Twitter account was permanently suspended after the Jan. 6riot at the U.S. Capitol, in which his supporters stormed the building as lawmakers counted the Electoral College votes certifying President-electJoe Biden’s November election win.
In acompany blog post, Twitter cited two of Trump’s tweets after the riot — one of which included a declaration that hewould not be attending Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20— as a “violation of the Glorification of Violence Policy.”
In February, executives for the tech company said they would uphold the ban on Trump, even if he were to run for office again.
“The way our policies work: When you’re removed from the platform, you’re removed from the platform, whether you’re a commentator, a CFO or a current or former public official,” Twitter CFO Ned Segaltold CNBC in an earlier interview.
“Our policies are designed to make sure that people are not inciting violence, and if anybody does that we have to remove them from the service and our policies don’t allow them to come back,” Segal continued. “He was removed when he was president and there’d be no difference for anybody who’s a public official once they’ve been removed from the service.”
Facebook and Instagramalso announcedthat Trump would be banned “indefinitely” from the platforms following the rioting.
In June, Facebook announced that it would review the ban in 2023 and only reinstate Trump once the risk his conduct poses to the public “has receded.”
In July, Trump announced he wouldlead class-action lawsuits against three of the country’s biggest tech companies — Facebook, Twitter and Google — and their CEOs following his bans on their platforms.
source: people.com
