Speaker Newt Gingrich is Chairman of Gingrich 360, a multimedia production and consulting company based in Arlington, Virginia. As former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Gingrich is well known as the architect of the “Contract with America” that led the Republican Party to victory in 1994, creating the first conservative majority in the House in 40 years. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich blasted Twitter over its fact-check of President Trump’s tweets and offered a warning about the social media platform’s future.

Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said that Twitter suspended his account for speaking out against the folly of deliberately allowing illegal immigrants to cross the border freely in the time of COVID-19.

Gingrich appeared on Fox Business Mornings With Maria March 5 show to talk to host Maria Bartiromo about a bill before Congress. During the interview, he said that Twitter had just suspended his account. He explained that he was being punished by Twitter because he tweeted “that having illegal immigrants come in without any controls is a public health issue in the time of COVID.”

Standard Twitter policy has been to lock the user’s account so he or she cannot “engage in actions such as Tweeting, Retweeting, or liking” until the offending tweet has been deleted. Gingrich told Bartiromo that he would be appealing the decision in an effort to get Twitter to explain what was wrong with the tweet.

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Bartiromo appeared astonished by Gingrich’s comments on censorship. She wondered, “Who put these companies in charge of being the arbiter of truth? What you tweeted is absolutely true.”

Gingrich explained that the result of Big Tech’s wanton censorship would be “a real populous backlash that will either make them liable to lawsuits, or have real controls over them or break them up.” Congress has been considering what to do about Big Tech for some time, with hearings and bills that so far have all gone nowhere.

Gingrich summed up the state of Twitter censorship, saying, “Twitter’s behaving as though it’s a dictatorship, and it’s not.”

Twitter began taking down what it deemed to be COVID-19 misinformation in April, and decided to censor dissent about vaccines starting this year. In October, Twitter flagged a post from President Donald Trump in which he said that COVID-19 was less lethal “in most populations” than “the flu.” Twitter also censored a separate post from Trump in which he said that he was “immune” from COVID-19 after he contracted the virus.

When reached for comment, a Twitter spokesperson said that Gingrich's account was 'temporarily locked for violating our hateful conduct policy,' though the spokesperson did not specify which tweet violated the policy or in what way.

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich blasted Twitter over its fact-check of President Trump’s tweets and offered a warning about the social media platform’s future.

“I think Twitter has gone down a very dangerous path and, if they’re not careful, they’re going to become a regulated public institution rather than a totally free entrepreneurial institution,” Gingrich said Wednesday on Fox News.

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Gingrich, a close Trump ally, also said that it is of “great concern” that Facebook, Twitter, and Google are “all located in one of the most radical left-wing parts of America.'

“And they express that in their biases,” he added.

Twitter sparked a fierce debate on Tuesday when it added a “get the facts” alert under Trump’s tweets targeting California’s mail-in ballots. Trump then accused the social media giant of interfering in the presidential election.

“@Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post,” Trump responded. “Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!”

The “get the facts” alert brings users to a page containing tweets and links to news articles about mail-in voting. Gingrich blasted the news sources provided and said they were biased.

“They went to left-wing publications to get a left-wing version,” the former speaker said.

Some Republican lawmakers bashed Twitter after the move, with Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida warning that Twitter “should no longer be shielded from liability” and treated as a publisher if it decides to not act strictly as a social media forum.