Twitter Wins Appeal Over ‘Censorship’ of Election Fraud Post (1)

Twitter Inc.'s decision to suspend the account of conservative commentator Rogan O’Handley after the California Secretary of State’s Office of Elections Cybersecurity flagged his post about alleged fraud in the 2020 presidential election didn’t violate the First Amendment, the Ninth Circuit ruled.

O’Handley, whose account was suspended in 2021 after repeated posts about the election being rigged, failed to show that the secretary of state’s office coerced Twitter by sending a message saying that one of O’Handley’s tweets “ignores the fact that we do audits,” the three-judge panel for the San Francisco-based appeals court said Friday.

“Just as Twitter could ...