MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell returned to Twitter on Sunday and was immediately re-banned.
Lindell was permanently banned from the platform last year for spreading election-related conspiracy theories.
“Hello everybody, I’M BACK ON TWITTER. My only account is @MikeJLindell! Please RT and FOLLOW to SPREAD THE WORD,” Lindell wrote in a tweet shared Sunday afternoon.
“All those other ones are fake accounts and they’ve been using my name out there, so we started this account,” he said in a video. “Please share with everybody you know, let everybody you know, so we can get the word out at Twitter in case they do take it down. Thanks a lot for helping out.”
About four hours after he sent that tweet, Twitter banned his account again.
A Twitter spokesperson told the Daily Beast that Lindell’s new account “was permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules on ban evasion.”
“If an account has been permanently suspended for severe violations of the Twitter Rules, Twitter reserves the right to also permanently suspend any other account we believe the same account holder or entity may be operating in violation of our earlier suspension, regardless of when the other account was created,” the policy states.
Lindell was permanently suspended from the platform in Jan. 2021 for repeated violations of the company’s policy on election misinformation.
Lindell called his suspension on Sunday a “shame”, telling the Daily Beast: “We need to melt down the voting machines and turn them into prison bars! Jack Dorsey should be first in line for prison!”
Lindell is not the only right-wing personality who tried to get back on Twitter after being permanently banned following billionaire Elon Musk purchasing the platform for $44 billion.
Last week, Roger Stone tried to return to Twitter and was immediately suspended again for violating the platform’s policy on ban evasion .
