In the big tech giant’s latest attempt at electoral interference, Twitter on Tuesday suspended the campaign press account of Republican Senate candidate JD Vance without any warning or reason.
“Why has @ Twitter / @ jack suspended my campaign press account? “Hillbilly Elegy” author tweeted.
Why@Twitter/@jacksuspend the press account of my campaign? pic.twitter.com/0tY5DnRIg1
– JD Vance (@ JDVance1) September 7, 2021
Vance tweeted that the suspension of the @JDVancePress account, which has 69 subscribers and follows 189 others, came without “any warning” and did not indicate how long the suspension is expected to last.
“No explanation as to which rules I would have broken. But that’s what happens when we allow five companies to control what we’re allowed to say,” Vance tweeted.
No warning. No explanation of any rules I would have broken. But that’s what happens when we allow five companies to control what we’re allowed to say. https://t.co/XFfMcPpSwx
– JD Vance (@ JDVance1) September 7, 2021
Vance’s campaign previously confirmed that the candidate “firmly believes that the political, financial and Big Tech elites … deserve nothing but our contempt and hatred.”
“Twitter gave no warning or explanation as to why they suspended our campaign press account,” Taylor Van Kirk, JD Vance campaign press secretary, told The Federalist. “This is why JD is fighting to break the Big Tech oligarchy which censors conservative voices.”
Twitter did not immediately respond to The Federalist’s request for comment, but continues to give a Taliban spokesperson a platform on its website as the terror group ravages Afghanistan.
Twitter has long claimed it cracked down on disinformation and violence. In January, the big tech giant banned then-President Trump over what he claimed were fears of “further incitement to violence” shortly after the Jan.6 riot on Capitol Hill.
Twitter’s move comes just days after Reason published an article accusing Vance of “Surrender[ing] to the politics of hate ”after saying“ I think our people hate good people ”when discussing the culture war.
Jordan Davidson is a writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minor in journalism.
