In wake of Twitter ban on Trump, Huntington Beach city attorney finds his own account has been …

Days after social media giant Twitter deleted tweets from President Donald Trump and suspended his @realDonaldTrump account following the riot at the U.S. Capitol, one Orange County elected official awoke on Monday to find his own page had been deleted.Huntington Beach City Atty. Michael Gates took to Facebook to explain his bewilderment at reportedly having his Twitter account wiped clean earlier that day.“I guess Twitter did me a favor,” Gates wrote on his personal Facebook page, which is public. “It wiped my account of all posts — even though I rarely tweet. Sad state of society we live in. Sad.”A personal social media account the 45-year-old Huntington Beach resident said he uses only a few times a month was suddenly bare, save for a profile picture and a prompt inviting him to leave a first tweet. “Six or seven years of activity was completely gone,” Gates said Tuesday. “There was no warning, no notifications, nothing.” Days after social media giant Twitter deleted permanently suspended President Donald Trump from the social media platform, Huntington Beach City Atty. Michael Gates discovered his own Twitter page had been completely wiped clean.(Twitter) The city attorney said he hadn’t recently posted anything inflammatory that would…
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