Stinging Tweets Scorch 'Snowflake' Devin Nunes Over Lawsuit Against Twitter

Mary Papenfuss
Updated

If Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) hoped to quell tweet attacks on him with his $250 million defamation lawsuit against Twitter, it’s not happening.

Nunes, a staunch apologist for President Donald Trump, is charging that Twitter failed to police parody Nunes accounts, including one claiming to represent his mom, and that the company threatened his midterm election chances by “shadow banning” him.

A conservative conspiracy theory claims that social media companies, like Twitter, target right-wing account holders with shadow banning, a practice that may block or restrict a user’s reach without making it apparent to the user.

Nunes “endured an orchestrated defamation campaign of stunning breadth and scope, one that no human being should ever have to bear and suffer in their whole life,” he says in a lawsuit filed Monday in Virginia State Court.

The suit has unleashed a flood of new attack tweets, including by parody accounts that have vastly increased their followers. They lash Nunes as a “snowflake” — conservatives’ favorite insult against progressives — remind him of the First Amendment, and gloat over the now-viral tweets exposed in the court action.

Twitter hasn’t commented on the lawsuit. But people on Twitter had plenty to say.

CORRECTION: An earlier version wrongly identified Nunes as a senator.

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