Twitter bans Mike Lindell
| Daily Digest for January 26, 2021 Posted at 7:45 a.m. by Michael Olson |
Good morning,
Minnesota-based My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell is considering a run against Gov. Tim Walz, but he won't be mulling it over with Twitter followers.
Twitter has permanently banned Lindell's account after he continued to perpetuate the baseless claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Twitter decided to ban Lindell, who founded the Minnesota-based bedding company My Pillow, due to "repeated violations" of its civic integrity policy, a spokesperson said in a statement. The policy was implemented last September and is targeted at fighting disinformation.
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