'A third arm of the DNC': Trump threatens 'big lawsuit' against Twitter for blocking campaign accounts over Hunter Biden story

President accuses of Twitter and Facebook of being stooges for ‘radical left’

Donald Trump has threatened to sue Twitter for locking his campaign accounts after the campaign repeatedly posted misinformation about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.

The president did not appear to know his Twitter accounts had been suspended until Fox Business host Stuart Varney informed him in an interview on Thursday.

“Well, I haven't heard that, but if it is, it is,” Mr Trump said.

He then added it's “all going to end up in a big lawsuit,” before railing on the big tech companies such as Twitter and Facebook as wheel-greasers for the “radical left” and “Antifa.”

“It's like a third arm of the DNC,” Mr Trump said of Facebook and Twitter, which have hidden or flagged several posts from his personal account this year in new efforts to curtail misinformation on their platforms.

“Really it's like a massive campaign contribution,” the president said of the tech giants.

The president took to Twitter on Wednesday to rip both social media platforms over their stance on the widely disputed story about the Biden family’s Ukrainian ties that was published by the New York Post.

“So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of ‘Smoking Gun’ emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter in the @nypost,” Mr Trump tweeted.

“It is only the beginning for them There is nothing worse than a corrupt politician. REPEAL SECTION 230!!!” he wrote.

Facebook said in a statement on Wednesday that its attempts to limit the distribution of the Hunter Biden story on its platform was part of its “standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation.”

Both parties in Congress have crushed Facebook over the last three and a half years for doing little to stop political misinformation during the 2016 election, where intelligence officials have concluded Russia perpetrated a wide-ranging influence campaign to tilt the election in Mr Trump’s favour.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged his company’s shortcomings last cycle before Congress.

“We recognize that we have a responsibility to stop bad actors from interfering with or undermining these conversations through misinformation, attempted voter suppression, or speech that is hateful or incites violence,” Mr Zuckerberg said in a statement to a House Judiciary subcommittee this summer.

“I understand the concerns people have in these areas, and we are working to address them. While we are making progress — for example, we have dramatically improved our ability to proactively find and remove harmful content and prevent election interference — I recognize that we have more to do.”