Twitter sued as ‘terror tool’

The widow of a New York man killed in last year’s terror attack in Brussels is suing Twitter in a lawsuit that calls the social-media giant a “tool and a weapon of terrorism.”

Anne Cameron Cain — whose husband, Alexander Pinczowski, died along with his sister Sascha in the March suicide bombings — 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 fund-raising and operational purposes,” said the lawsuit, filed by Cain.

Cain was joined in the Manhattan federal lawsuit by family members of Nohemi Gonzalez, a California woman who died in the November 2015 Paris attack.

That terror strike took the lives of 130 innocent victims.

The families of Pinczowski and Gonzalez are seeking unspecified damages to be determined at trial.

The allegations mirror lawsuits filed against Twitter, Facebook and Google after last June’s 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 the Silicon Valley companies of not doing enough to stop terrorists from using their services to expand their reach and recruitment of potential attackers.

“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.