San Francisco — Twitter has sued Texas attorney-general Ken Paxton over his investigation of its moderation practices that he started after the social media company banned former President Donald Trump.

Twitter described the Republican attorney-general’s probe as nothing more than an attempt to “intimidate, harass and target” the company in retaliation for its exercise of the First Amendment right to free speech...

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