Former President Donald Trump announced today Wednesday that he intends to file lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as well as the CEOs of each company.
Trump announced his intentions at a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, promising that the case would lead to "an end to a shadow ban, an end to the silence and cancellation which you know so well".
Trump and the lawyersterms of, they plan to file suit in the Southern District of Florida. as he claims the big tech companies violated his First Amendment rights to the US Constitution and even calls Facebook a "state actor." The lawsuit against Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai points to YouTube as the defendant company.
Following the January 6 riots in the US Capitol, Twitter and Facebook banned Trump from accessing their platforms.
"We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue using our service during this time are simply too great," the CEO said at the time. Facebook Mark Zuckerberg.
"Facebook is currently planning to maintain the ban until at least January 2023. Following the decision of the largest social network, Trump called Facebook's actions" an absolute disgrace to our country. "
