Banned right-wing Twitter users aren’t receiving the warm welcome they expected following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition, at least not yet anyways.
Mike Lindell, the deplatformed MyPillow CEO known for parroting a laundry list of Covid-19 and election conspiracies theories attempted to make his triumphant return to Twitter over the weekend. He was banned less than three hours later.
Lindell, more commonly known as the ‘MyPillow Guy’ or maybe more appropriately, the ‘MyPillow Goblin,’ got booted off of Twitter following the January 6 attacks on the capitol for repeated violations of Twitter’s civic integrity policy. Though it’s unclear what exact Tweets pushed him over the edge, Lindell had repeatedly denied the 2020 election results and had gone as far as to ask former President Donald Trump to enforce “martial law,” to keep Joe Biden from assuming office.