Chinese Dissident Sues X, Alleging Wrongful Account Suspension and Possible Foreign Pressure

The suit claims that the company violated its own policies and failed to explain the 2023 removal of a U.S.-based critic of the CCP.

Political commentator Wilson Lei Chen, aka Chen Pokong, gives a speech at the University of Cambridge, England, in this undated photo. Courtesy of Wilson Lei Chen

A New York-based Chinese dissident and political commentator has filed a lawsuit against X Corp., alleging that the social media platform wrongfully suspended his account without explanation and may have acted under foreign political pressure.

Wilson Lei Chen, a U.S. citizen who is also known as Chen Pokong on his podcast, filed the suit in the New York State Supreme Court in December 2025. On Jan. 5, the case was moved to federal court and is now pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, according to Chen’s Jan. 12 statement, which The Epoch Times viewed on Jan. 26.