Trump Files Injunction Request to Restore Twitter Account

Published 03 Oct.2021 08:44(KST)

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[Asia Economy Reporter Cho Hyun-ui] Former U.S. President Donald Trump has requested the court to restore his permanently suspended Twitter account.

According to the Washington Post (WP) and others on the 2nd (local time), Trump filed a provisional injunction application with the Miami Federal Court in Florida the day before with this content.

He asked the court to order the restoration of his account, claiming that Twitter violated the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of expression, by censoring his account.

In the provisional injunction application, his attorney argued, "Twitter is controlling political discourse in a historically unprecedented way, posing a serious risk to democratic debate."

Earlier, Trump filed lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and others that blocked his accounts in July.

This provisional injunction application requests the restoration of the Twitter account before the lawsuit is concluded.

Twitter permanently suspended Trump's account in January due to spreading false information and inciting violence related to the federal Capitol riot by Trump supporters.