The former president has taken legal action to get reinstated on the social media platform.
Amid concerns that he could spur further unrest, Twitter was among social media platformsHowever, in a filing made on Friday, Trump's lawyers argued that Twitter had let thetweet about military victories in Afghanistan, but censored the former president when it labeled his tweets as"misleading information" or accused him of breaching the platform's rules on"glorifying violence.
The suspended Twitter account of U.S. President Donald Trump appears on an iPhone screen on January 08, 2021 in San Anselmo, California. Trump has accused Congress members of pressuring Twitter to ban him.Lawyers for Trump said that the social media platform"exercises a degree of power and control over political discourse", the filing first reported by
Trump also accused Twitter of double standards in its rules about COVID-19 and said that news outlets had falsely claimed social-justice protests last year were not sources of infection, while the attack on the Capitol was.
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