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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell returns to Twitter with a call to melt down voting machines

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Election fraud conspiracy theorist and pillow salesman Mike Lindell has returned to Twitter, a platform from which he was permanently suspended for repeatedly violating the social media company’s civic integrity policies.

The CEO of MyPillow – a prominent election fraud conspiracy theorist who continues to baselessly assert that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump – thanked Elon Musk for his ability to return, hours after Twitter’s new owner banned several journalists who have scrutinised one of the world’s wealthiest men and the massively influential platform that he now runs.

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