Twitter Suspends Libs of TikTok While Account Owner Vows Legal Action
According to the owner of the right-wing anti-LGBTQ+ Twitter account Libs of TikTok, Twitter suspended the account Wednesday.Chaya Raichik, the former Brooklyn real estate saleswoman who runs the hate account, claimed her account was temporarily suspended for no apparent reason.
The account received a "wrongful 7-day suspension as the result of a targeted harassment campaign from the Left to deplatform me," Raichik wrote on her blog.
For weeks, Libs of TikTok has been targeting hospitals nationwide that provide gender-affirming care and inspiring attacks on the facilities.
For example, in Boston, a right-wing extremist was arrested for calling in a hoax bomb threat to Boston Children's Hospital after Raichik targeted the facility online.Raichik reportedly had a law firm send a letter threatening legal action if Twitter decided to ban her account permanently.CEO of the Babylon Bee, a right-wing site advertised to be conservative Christian satire, Seth Dillon took to his Twitter account to call out the platform for kicking Libs of TikTok off it."BREAKING: Twitter has once again hit Libs of TikTok with a 7-day suspension for "hateful conduct." No specific tweets were flagged," Dillon wrote. "We've since fired off another letter to Twitter (attached).
