Former President Donald Trump’s legal team revived his First Amendment complaint against Twitter’s censorship practices on Monday, protesting the social media platform now owned by Elon Musk.
Mr. Musk is not named in the 96-page brief filed Monday, but Hunter Biden and Galileo Galilei do make appearances.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers said government officials relied on social media platforms to engage in viewpoint discrimination about such topics as COVID-19 leaking from a Chinese lab, the veracity of the 2020 election, the efficacy of COVID vaccines, and the content of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
“Most people once believed these to be crackpot ideas; many still do,” Mr.