A British Columbia businessman and philanthropist is suing Twitter for publishing what he calls 'false and defamatory' tweets that escalated during the 2016 United States election.
VANCOUVER -- A British Columbia businessman and philanthropist is suing Twitter for publishing what he calls "false and defamatory" tweets that escalated during the 2016 United States election.
He says in a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court that he faced a targeted attack on Twitter by a group who set out to vilify him for political purposes starting around February 2015. He says he asked Twitter on multiple occasions to remove the posts and the social-media company deleted some of them, but it has neglected or refused to remove others and continues to publish a "large number" of false, defamatory, abusive and threatening tweets.
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