Former US President Donald Trump has said he is suing tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google.
“Today I am working with [the] America First Policy Institute in a major class action lawsuit against tech giants including Facebook, Google and Twitter, and their CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey,” he said at a press conference in New Jersey.
Trump is demanding an immediate halt to social media activities, as well as “illegal and shameful censorship of the American people.” “They are doing exactly this, we demand an end to the shadow blocking of accounts, silence and blacklists,” the ex-president said.
In addition, Trump has declared the need to “impose penalties on these social media giants.” “We do not hope for an amicable agreement, we do not know what will happen, but we do not count on it,” he said. At the same time, he expressed the hope that this trial will become an important turning point for the entire country.
In the last weeks of his tenure as president of the United States, the work of Donald Trump’s accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram has been suspended. This happened shortly after the January 6 attack by Trump supporters on the Capitol in Washington in an attempt to prevent the approval of the outcome of the presidential election in the US Congress. Democrat Joe Biden won them.
Prior to the account suspension, Donald Trump had nearly 89 million Twitter followers, 35 million Facebook followers and 24 million Instagram followers.