When contacted, Twitter declined to comment on the filing.
Former US President Donald Trump on Friday asked a federal judge in Florida to ask Twitter to restore his account, which Company liquidated in January Citing the risk of incitement to violence.
Mr Trump filed a request for a preliminary injunction against Twitter in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, arguing that the social media company was “forced” by members of the US Congress to suspend his account had gone.
Twitter and several other social media platforms banned Mr Trump from his services after a crowd of his supporters attacked the US Capitol A deadly riot on 6 January.
After that attack, Mr Trump made a speech in which he repeated the false claims that his Electoral defeat in November was due to widespread fraud, a claim rejected by several courts and state election officials.
Trump’s lawyers said in the filing, “Twitter exercises power and control over political discourse in this country to a degree that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented and dangerous to open democratic debate.” The filing was first reported by Bloomberg.
Twitter declined to comment on the filing when contacted by Reuters.
Earlier he was blockedMr Trump had over 88 million followers on Twitter and used it as his social media megaphone.
In the court filing, Mr Trump argued that Twitter allowed the Taliban to regularly tweet about their military victories in Afghanistan, but labeled their tweets as “misleading information” during his presidency. by or indicating that they violated the company’s rules against “glorifying violence.” “
In July Mr Trump sued Twitter, Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google, as well as their CEOs, alleging they unlawfully silence conservative viewpoints.
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