MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was banned from Twitter for a second time after attempting to use a new account to access the social media platform.
Lindell set up a new account Sunday on Twitter under @MikeJLindell. The account was quickly suspended.
Twitter said Monday that Lindell’s new account was permanently suspended for violating its rules on ban evasion.
Lindell’s original Twitter account was permanently banned in January 2021 after Lindell continued to perpetuate the baseless claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. At the time Twitter said that it decided to ban Lindell due to “repeated violations” of its civic integrity policy.
Lindell, a Trump supporter, has continued to insist that the presidential election was rigged even after U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration had begun.
Trump has also had his account permanently suspended by Twitter. The former president posted on Truth Social, his own platform, on Thursday. He had not made any appearance on the platform, save for one quick post before the platform was opened to the public in late February. He has said that he has no intention of rejoining Twitter even if his account is reinstated following Elon Musk’s agreement to buy the social media giant for roughly $44 billion.
While it remains to be seen if Musk will reinstate accounts that are banned on Twitter, the Tesla CEO calls himself a free speech absolutist who believes in allowing any content that doesn’t run afoul of the law.
(AP)
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As soon as I read this, I knew it had to be an AP (American Pravda) piece:
“Lindell’s original Twitter account was permanently banned in January 2021 after Lindell continued to perpetuate the baseless claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. ”
The claim was not then, and is still not now, “baseless”. There is certainly plenty upon which to base that claim, even if the outcome may be subject to dispute/disagreement.
But this is AP, of course.
This clown is such a joke, its a shame that Twitter is denying us the entertainment value of his continued rants. Instead, we have to wait for the next MAGA rally for him to tell us about his newest theory of Jewish Martians in a George Soros funded spaceship changing votes for Biden. Also, if you catch his clown act on the right day, you can get a new dog-bed with his special memory foam cushion with a picture of DJT #45.