“Former President Donald Trump, who has complained about censorship by social media giants, plans to announce class action lawsuits today against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, sources tell Axios. It’s the latest escalation in Trump’s yearslong battle with Twitter and Facebook over free speech and censorship. Trump is completely banned from Twitter and is banned from Facebook for [at least] another two years.”
“Trump is scheduled to make an announcement at a press conference today at 11 am. Trump’s legal effort is supported by the America First Policy Institute, a non-profit focused on perpetuating Trump’s policies. The group’s president and CEO and board chair, former Trump officials Linda McMahon and Brooke Rollins, will accompany him during the announcement. Class action lawsuits would enable him to sue the two tech CEOs on behalf of a broader group of people that he argues have been censored by biased policies. To date, Trump and other conservative critics have not presented any substantial evidence that either platform is biased against conservatives in its policies or implementation of them” Axios reports.
The complaint ought to be a friggin riot. Excited to see what kind of insane arguments the Orange Pharaoh is going to make in suing the two founders. I honestly thought he was smarter than this, that he never went past the threat of litigation against his enemies as to avoid being humiliated in court (obviously a huge exception to that is the maelstrom of failure that was November and December of 2020, but he had no other choice if he wanted to try and stay in office). Following this case will be quite entertaining to say the least.