July 7, 2021 🟡 Significant

Announces class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google for "censorship"

From his Bedminster club, Trump announced he was filing class-action lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, Google, and their CEOs (Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Sundar Pichai). He claimed the tech giants were engaging in "illegal, unconstitutional censorship" and demanded an end to their "shadow banning" and "blacklisting." Legal experts widely dismissed the suits as a publicity stunt with little chance of success given private companies' First Amendment rights.

"We are demanding an end to the shadow banning, a stop to the silencing, and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing, and canceling that you know so well." — Press conference at Bedminster, NJ

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