Donald Trump blocks people on Twitter, sued

Seven people are suing US President Donald Trump after he blocked them on Twitter. In the lawsuit filed by the Knight First Amendment Institute, a free speech group at Columbia University, the seven Twitter users have claimed that their accounts were blocked by the President, or his aides, after they replied to his tweets with mocking or critical comments.

The legal complaint argues that by blocking these individuals, Mr Trump has barred them from joining the online conversation. It calls the move an attempt to “suppress dissent” in a public forum — and a violation of their First Amendment right to free speech, the BBC reported. ‘Mr Trump’s Twitter account @realDonaldTrump has over 33.7 million followers.