On Wednesday social media influencer Justin Hart announced that he had filed a federal lawsuit against social media giants Facebook and Twitter, as well as against President Joe Biden, and the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy for violating his First Amendment rights to free speech. Hart, who is a data analyst and digital strategist, claims that the federal government has colluded with social media companies to monitor, flag, suspend and even delete social media posts it deems to contain "misinformation."
He claimed that over the past year Facebook and Twitter suspended his accounts multiple times for his sharing of what he said is "data" and "scientific research" about Covid-19.
Hart is being represented by attorneys from the Liberty Justice Center, which identified itself as a national public-interest law firm that fights to protect the fundamental constitutional rights of its clients.
"The recent admission that the White House has a team of government workers flagging Americans’ social media posts for removal is extremely disturbing, and it’s illegal," Brian Kelsey, managing attorney at the Liberty Justice Center said in an emailed statement to this reporter. "Regardless of one's politics or views about COVID, every citizen should be greatly alarmed by this melding of Big Government and Big Tech to control what you see, hear and know about one of the greatest public issues of our time."
The lawsuit, Hart v. Facebook, was filed August 31, 2021, in the United States...
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