Twitter bans Free Speech group over violations of its platform manipulation and spam policy:  Speech First is a nonprofit dedicated to protecting students' right to free speech on college campuses. It also fights for free speech in the media and in the courts as well. Twitter permanently suspended the organization for violations of its platform manipulation and spam policy, a Twitter spokesperson told The Daily Signal. That policy references “coordinated activity that attempts to artificially influence conversations through the use of multiple accounts, fake accounts, automation and/or scripting … .” Speech First's President Nicole Neily said that Twitter provided no explanation as to which of its posts violated this Twitter policy and warranted the group be kicked off the platform. "It was like we were sharing news articles, nothing controversial, not like, you know, ‘flat-earthing’ or ‘COVID-denying’ or any of that stuff," Neily told The Daily Signal. "So … it’s like it’s a total mystery today." Lora Ries, director of the Center for Technology Policy at The Heritage Foundation’s Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, told The Daily Signal that Twitter was "not following its own process" related to suspensions and "Owes Speech First an explanation and an appeal."