Peter Hasson, DCNF
Twitter suspended conservative political consultant Luke Thompson’s account on Friday after he revealed that Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend, Riley Roberts, has a government email account.
Thompson posted a screenshot of a House directory that showed Roberts listed under “staff,” alongside a House email address for Roberts and the phone number for Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional office.
Twitter claimed Thompson violated “rules against posting private information,” even though the information he posted was a government email address and a publicly available phone number. Twitter briefly made Thompson’s tweet not publicly visible before later restoring it.
So it seems @ltthompso‘s account has been locked by Twitter after noting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend has a House email address pic.twitter.com/JH0ULXfLAl
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) February 15, 2019
. @ltthompso, who tweeted this morning about @aoc ‘s boyfriend having a House email address, has been locked out of his Twitter account, per screenshot he sent me: pic.twitter.com/VXpN1XVTDf
— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) February 15, 2019
Twitter did not return a request for comment on why Thompson’s account was locked out. He later regained access to his account.
Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff claimed Roberts isn’t a paid staff member and that the email address only allows him access to the congresswoman’s calendar.
“From time to time, at the request of members, spouses and partners are provided House email accounts for the purposes of viewing the member’s calendar,” the chief administrative officer of the House told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a phone call.
Roberts did not return an email seeking comment.
Evie Fordham contributed to this report.
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