The former president filed a class-action suit against Facebook, Twitter and Google. Experts say it’s doomed.
Ousted from some of the world’s largest social media platforms after the U.S. Capitol siege on Jan. 6, Donald Trump made it clear he wants back in: On Wednesday, the former president revealed he filed class-acton lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and Google and their chief executive officers.
“We are going to make sure that the liability protection that they have under Section 230 is at a very minimum changed, and at a maximum taken away,” he said. Filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the class-action lawsuit names Trump as the lead plaintiff, but also covers other U.S. users who were unfairly “censored” since June 2018. According to documents filed, the suit asks the court to restore Trump’s Twitter, Facebook and YouTube accounts and block the companies from “exercising censorship, editorial control or prior restraint in its many forms over the posts of President Trump and Putative Class Members.