Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy flatly rejected LinkedIn’s claim that his account was locked “in error” this week, in another clash between a conservative politician and Big Tech.
Ramaswamy took to Twitter on Thursday by putting the professional networking platform on blast for claiming he violated the site’s “misinformation, hate speech and violence” policies. The supposedly offending posts slammed President Biden on China and climate change.
Despite multiple appeals over several days, Ramaswamy’s account remained locked, until he made the dust-up public.
The Microsoft-owned company told various news outlets, “We don’t tolerate misinformation, hate speech, violence or any form of abuse on our platform. We understand that this might not be the response you wanted, but we work to apply our policies in a fair and consistent way for all of our members… The account was restricted in error, and it’s now back up.”
Ramaswamy remains a long shot in the GOP field, averaging about 3% support according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls. That puts him above some other declared candidates but far behind former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.
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