Twitter’s Civil Integrity Policy states, “You must not use Twitter’s services to manipulate or interfere with elections or other civic processes.” Gateway Pundit is promoting falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election, both on Twitter and directly on its website, about voter fraud and voter irregularities. On Biden’s inauguration day, the website’s headline falsely claimed that the election was “stolen” from Trump.
Hoft shared a message on Saturday night about his ban on the Gateway Pundit website. He pointed to an “ongoing investigation from the Detroit TCF Center,” which continues to spread a false story about “late-night deliveries of tens of thousands of votes.”
“We have a lot more to report on this incident in the coming days,” said Hoft. He shared a screenshot of his Twitter account before it got banned. The tweet reads, “Just an FYI – The fake news media and others challenged our Friday’s TCF Center video report. That was a bad move. There are many more to come!”
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden was inaugurated on January 20. There is no evidence that Trump’s 2020 election was stolen, and Trump’s administration and election officials have called the 2020 presidential election the “safest” election in US history. President Joe Biden won the popular vote by over 7 million votes, and he won the Electoral College with 306 to 232.
But just hours after the document was posted on the website, journalists and self-proclaimed Internet sleuths tied the document to Surefire Intelligence, a company associated with far-right Internet personality Jacob Wohl. Hoft removed the document from the website and published a note from the editor instead.