Attorneys for Twitter are urging a Virginia court to toss a $250 million defamation lawsuit brought against the company by a California congressman who doesn’t like being mocked on social media.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) claims in his lawsuit that the San Francisco-based company facilitated defamation against him and censored conservatives and viewpoints with which it disagrees. The lawsuit also targets two accounts (now shuttered @DevinNunesMom as well as @DevinCow) and a political strategist.
“The sheer volume of defamatory tweets and the short time period over which they were published is staggering,” Nunes said in his lawsuit. The attacks caused ...
