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Loomer alleged that so-called censorship by social media platforms had undermined her failed congressional campaigns in 2020 and 2022 in Florida’s 12th and 11th districts. “Loomer had no social media for any of her campaigns due to social media bans,” her lawyers wrote in their petition.
Defendants included X, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Meta, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Procter & Gamble, and dozens of federal employees. She alleged the defendants conspired “with Google, YouTube, and Instagram, to unlawfully censor conservative political speech, specifically targeting Loomer’s campaign communications to influence U.S. congressional elections.”
She alleged that Procter & Gamble told Meta to ban a list of individuals, including Loomer, unless they “publicly disavowed affiliation with the Proud Boys,” the violent white nationalist hate group. Loomer also claimed that federal officials had made efforts to “suppress conservative content,” specifically naming the 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which was temporarily demoted on Facebook while fact-checkers worked to assess the validity of the story.
Lower courts were less than convinced that the companies and individuals Loomer named had violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. A federal judge dismissed her suit, and an appeals court agreed, ruling that Loomer “simply alleges that there was a RICO enterprise because the Defendants had the ‘common goals of making money, acquiring influence over other enterprises and entities, and other pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests.’”
This story has been updated.
