Former U.S President Donald Trump has declared that he is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google as well as their respective CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai.
Trump made the announcement on Wednesday morning at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey as the three lawsuits, filed in a Florida federal court, allege that plaintiff’s First Amendment rights have been violated by the tech trio.
These lawsuits were revealed a month since Facebook decided to extend Trump’s ban from using the platform until January 2023. Since the Capitol riots on January 6th, Twitter banned Trump from posting on his most used social media platform. Google-owned YouTube followed suit later that month.
There are two main purposes to the lawsuits. Firstly, Trump wants to be allowed to return to posting on these social medias as well as referring to Section 320 of the Communications Decency Act, part of legislation which blocks tech companies from being held liable for what users share on their platforms, is unconstitutional.
“We’re not looking to settle,” Trump told reporters when asked about the lawsuits as quoted by CNBC. “We don’t know what’s going to happen but we’re not looking to settle,” he said.
Representatives of Twitter, Facebook and Google are yet to comment on the subject.