MyPillow’s Mike Lindell Kicked Off Twitter

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January 26, 2021, 7:15 am

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has joined the ranks of other right-wingers pushing conspiracy theories who have been banned from Twitter.

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“The account you referenced has been permanently suspended due to repeated violations of our Civic Integrity Policy,” a Twitter spokesperson told CNN.

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The social media company declined to specify which tweets, in particular, caused Lindell’s removal from its platform, but it seems likely that he has been banned for continuing to insist Donald Trump won the presidency, despite there being absolutely no evidence backing up that claim, and courts dismissed dozens of challenges to the results prior to President Joe Biden’s inauguration last week.

While simply spewing misinformation never did much to get Twitter’s attention in the past, things shifted after the Capitol riots, which happened in no small part thanks to the wild conspiracy theories surrounding the election being allowed to run rampant on social media.

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Lindell has made a lot of waves in the past several weeks, starting when he was photographed carrying documents discussing the possibility of enacting martial law into a meeting with Trump prior to the end of his presidency.

He later gave an interview suggesting that he and his friends would be ruined if Trump “allowed” the inauguration to move forward and complaining that companies were refusing to stock his products in response to some of his unhinged behavior.

Lindell was also the subject of a genuinely bizarre tabloid story in recent days that claimed he and 30 Rock actress Jane Krakowski had a secret fling. The CEO is now suing the Daily Mail over the story, though we can pretty much all agree Krakowski is the one who has been done dirty with such a horrifying claim.

All in all, not many people had anything nice to say after news broke that Lindell could no longer tweet.

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Twitter has permanently suspended the account of Mike Lindell, the pillow businessman, fervent Trump devotee and serial utterer of false claims about the election, for repeat violations of its policy on election misinformation.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 26, 2021

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell may run for Minnesota governor, Axios reports.

As if he’s going to have any money after Dominion is done with him. hahahaha pic.twitter.com/QAdU6nQnaf

— Tokyo Sand (@DHStokyo) January 25, 2021

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And the jokes pretty much wrote themselves.

Overheard: Hey, Mike Lindell. So with BBB and Kohl’s ending their relationship with My Pillow, and your account suspended on Twitter, you’re facing some tough times. But hey, idea! Maybe you could sell those pillowcases as hoods!

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 26, 2021

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It’s almost like supporting an insurrection has some actual consequences! Go figure.

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*First Published: January 26, 2021, 7:15 am