Twitter has permanently suspended the account of Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, following his continued unproven claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Twitter said in a statement shared with multiple news outlets Monday that the platform banned Lindell due to “Repeated violations” of his civil integrity policy.
Lindell, a vocal supporter of former President Trump
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Twitter’s civil integrity policy prohibit posts that “may suppress participation or mislead people about when, where or how to participate in a civil process. ”
“You may not use Twitter’s services to manipulate or interfere with elections or other civil processes,” the policy states, with five or more policy violations resulting in a ‘permanent suspension’.
Twitter permanently banned Trump from his platform earlier this month, citing “the risk of further incitement to violence, “after the deadly riot at the Capitol on January 6. Just before the siege, the former president reiterated the allegations of a stormy election in remarks to his supporters.
Lindell, who is widely known as the “My Pillow Guy,” has already faced the previous condemnation for promoting unsupported demands around the 2020 election.
Last week, Dominion Voting Systems, a company that was targeted by Trump and his allies after the election, threatened Lindell with legal action, writes in a letter to Lindell that he was a leader of a “misinformation campaign” against the voting machine company. Dominion Voting Systems filed a $ 1.3 billion defamation suit against Trump’s personal lawyer on Monday. Rudy Giuliani
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Lindell was also examined after he was photographed leaving a meeting with Trump earlier this month in the White House. Zoomed-in shots of the images, taken by a Washington Post photographer, show the partially visible notes to mention “martial law if necessary” and the “Insurrection Act”, a law from 1806 that allows the president to to mobilize national guard. troops to suppress civilian disorder or acts of insurrection.
Bed, Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s and other retailers has since dropped My Pillow products, although a spokesman for Bed Bath & Beyond said in a statement to The Hill that the decision was part of a larger effort to halt ” a number of underperforming articles and brands. ”