Former US president Donald Trump has asked a federal judge to force Twitter to reinstate his account.

In July, Trump sued Twitter, Facebook and Google, as well as their chief executives, alleging they unlawfully silence conservative viewpoints.

Trump’s request for a preliminary injunction against Twitter was filed late on Friday in Miami, Florida, claiming the social media company cancelled his account in January under pressure from his political rivals in Congress, Bloomberg News reports.

Twitter declined to comment. Trump’s representatives did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.

Trump lost his social media megaphone this year after the social media companies said he violated their policies against glorifying violence.

Twitter “exercises a degree of power and control over political discourse in this country that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented, and profoundly dangerous to open democratic debate,” Bloomberg quoted the former president’s request as saying. 

In the court filing, Trump argued Twitter allowed the Taliban to tweet regularly about their military victories across Afghanistan, but censored him during his presidency by labelling his tweets as “misleading information” or indicating they violated the company’s rules against “glorifying violence”.

AAP

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