The wife of a New York man who died in last year’s terror attack in Brussels is suing Twitter in a new lawsuit that calls the social media giant a “tool and a weapon of terrorism.”
The wife of Alexander Pinczowski, who died in the March attack along with his sister Sascha Pinczowski, accused Twitter of aiding and abetting ISIS by acting as the terrorist organization’s communication, recruiting and marketing arm.
“ISIS has also used Twitter’s Direct Messaging capabilities for fundraising and operational purposes,” said the lawsuit by Pinczowski’s wife, Anne Cameron Cain.
Cain was joined in the Manhattan federal lawsuit by family members of Nohemi Gonzalez, a California woman who died in the 2015 Paris attack, which killed 130 people.
The families of Pinczowski and Gonzalez are seeking unspecified damages to be determined at trial.
The allegations echo lawsuits filed against Twitter, Facebook and Google after the Orlando, Fla., nightclub shooting. Gonazalez’s family also filed suit against Twitter, Google and Facebook last year in San Francisco.
All of the lawsuits accuse Silicon Valley companies of not doing enough to stop terrorists from using its service to expand their reach.
“The conduct of Twitter was a direct, foreseeable and proximate cause of the wrongful deaths of Nohemi Gonzalez, Alexander Pinczowski,” the New York lawsuit said.