Twitter Hit with $250 MILLION Lawsuit for Alleged Anti-Conservative ‘Shadow Bans’

It’s no secret that most– if not all– social media platforms have an anti-conservative bias. Almost everyone can admit that. It’s simply undeniable. Look at all of the conservative websites that fell off the face of the planet after tech companies decided to purge ’em. Look at the various conservative accounts suspended or penalized from Instagram and Twitter without true cause. It’s happening. It’s real. We’re in the middle of a culture war, and liberal tech companies and yes– the Deep State– are doing everything in their power to erase the Judeo-Christian values that once acted as the common thread throughout modern American society.

Rep. Devin Nunes is fighting back. He’s suing Twitter. He filed a massive lawsuit– $250 million– against the social media giant and “a handful of its users.”

From Fox News:

California GOP Rep. Devin Nunes filed a major lawsuit seeking $250 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages against Twitter and a handful of its users on Monday, accusing the social media site of “shadow-banning conservatives” to secretly hide their posts, systematically censoring opposing viewpoints, and totally “ignoring” lawful complaints of repeated abusive behavior.

In a complaint filed in Virginia state court on Monday, obtained by Fox News, Nunes claimed Twitter wanted to derail his work on the House Intelligence Committee, which he chaired until 2019, as he looked into alleged and apparent surveillance abuses by the government. Nunes said Twitter was guilty of “knowingly hosting and monetizing content that is clearly abusive, hateful and defamatory – providing both a voice and financial incentive to the defamers – thereby facilitating defamation on its platform.”

The lawsuit alleged defamation, conspiracy and negligence, as well as violations of the state’s prohibition against “insulting words” — effectively fighting words that tend towards “violence and breach of the peace.” The complaint sought not only damages, but also an injunction compelling Twitter to turn over the identities behind numerous accounts he said harassed and defamed him.

While this might make Twitter squirm, I don’t believe it solves the root of the problem. Twitter’s not going to have a sudden change of heart. It’s not going to go, “Wow! Nunes was right! We’re total biased jerks! We must change our ways immediately!”

Additionally, as the complaint stated, Twitter has a duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid hosting outwardly defamatory content because of its increasingly important role in current affairs.

More from the complaint:

“Access to Twitter is essential for meaningful participation in modern-day American Democracy. A candidate without Twitter is a losing candidate. The ability to use Twitter is a vital part of modern citizenship. A presence on Twitter is essential for an individual to run for office or engage in any level of political organizing in modern America. That is because Twitter is not merely a website: it is the modern town square. Twitter is equivalent to the private owner of a public forum who has fully opened its property to the general public for purposes of permitting the public’s free expression and debate. That is, in fact, what Twitter has always claimed to be.”

Nunes explained his lawsuit in further detail on Sean Hannity’s show last night.

“The case we’re basically making is this was an orchestrated effort. So people were targeting me, there were anonymous accounts that were developed…and these accounts are not supposed to exist. Twitter says that they don’t have accounts that do this,” Nunes stated.

And on Twitter’s shawdowbanning:

“And when they’re regulating us, they’re regulating what people can see on my tweets – which they’ve done – and then they’re proliferating out things that they agree with the algorithms that they develop,” Nunes said. “They need to come clean. They’re not a public square. They are content developers.”