'It's completely unAmerican': Trump faults Big Tech for meddling in the 2020 presidential election

Former President Donald Trump railed at Facebook, Google and Twitter on Sunday in his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), claiming the tech companies unduly influenced the 2020 presidential election and continue to silence conservative speech. “The radical left and Big Tech attack on free speech is unlawful,” he said. “It’s unconstitutional, and it’s completely un-American.” Mr. Trump claimed during his speech that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg spent $400 million on election meddling in several states and funded “unmanned and unprotected” ballot drop boxes in key swing states. Mr. Trump also claimed that the tech companies collectively worked to suppress news coverage leading up to the election, citing Twitter and Facebook’s ban of The New York Post after the outlet published a report exposing Hunter Biden’s disparaging emails recovered from a computer left at a Delaware repair shop. “The truth was covered up and it had a giant impact on the election,” Mr. Trump said. “This must never happen to another party’s presidential candidate again. We are the laughingstock of the world.” Mr. Trump argued that the companies had been “co-opted, coerced, and weaponized by government” to become the enforcers of illegal censorship when announcing his lawsuit earlier…
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