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Line 135: − − ===President Trump banned=== − [[President Donald Trump]] brought even more attention to the social networking site, and drew both more conservatives and critics. He was well-known for his plentiful, blunt, and oft humorous tweets, and made it a regular practice to communicate with the public using Twitter, even before his political career. He became quite popular on Twitter, with over 26 million followers. He became so popular, in fact, that searching just the letter "r", the fist letter of his username,"@realDonaldTrump" returned him as the first search suggestion. He was illegally banned from Twitter on January 6th, 2021, after the mostly peaceful Capitol building protests. − − In the case of ''Trump v. Twitter'', filed in July 2021, attorneys for President Trump argued, − {{quotebox-float|"[The companies have] unprecedented power over the content of public discourse to censor constitutionally protected speech with impunity, resulting in a grave threat to the freedom of expression and to democracy itself."<ref>https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-sues-tech-giants-for-booting-him-from-their-sites/</ref>}} − On Apr 29, 2022, days after [[Twitter]] takeovet by Elon Musk, Trump posted "I'm back."<ref>Callie Patteson, [https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/trump-posts-on-truth-social-days-after-musk-twitter-takeover/amp/ Trump posts on TRUTH Social days after Twitter takeover: ‘I’M BACK’], ''NY Post'', April 29, 2022.</ref> - invoking one of his most viral Twitter moments in his first post on [[TRUTH Social|TRUTH Social]] since the platform, founded by the former president, fully launched.
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The original lawsuit, filed in 2016 by a Twitter shareholder, alleged Dorsey and others including former CEO Dick Costolo and board member Evan Williams hid facts about Twitter’s slowing user growth while they sold their personal stock holdings “for hundreds of millions of dollars in insider profits.”<ref>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-investor-lawsuit-settlement-payment-jack-dorsey-1235068982/</ref>
The original lawsuit, filed in 2016 by a Twitter shareholder, alleged Dorsey and others including former CEO Dick Costolo and board member Evan Williams hid facts about Twitter’s slowing user growth while they sold their personal stock holdings “for hundreds of millions of dollars in insider profits.”<ref>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-investor-lawsuit-settlement-payment-jack-dorsey-1235068982/</ref>
===Twitter executives hate speech===
===Twitter executives hate speech===