By Rob Shimshock | January 19, 2021 | 4:47pm EST Conservative author Michelle Malkin speaks on Fox News about previous censorship on Facebook. (Photo credit: YouTube/Fox News) Twitter locked the accounts of both conservative author Michelle Malkin and Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) Tuesday, preventing any tweets from being sent from those accounts for 12 hours leading up to Inauguration Day. "Twitter doesn't want me expressing my opinions 24 hours before inauguration," Malkin wrote on Telegram, an encrypted, cross-platform messaging app. "No reason given, but of course we know the reason." When banning an account, the Big Tech company typically cites a specific tweet that infringed its policy, giving the user an opportunity to delete it, but not this time. Furthermore, Malkin, whose Twitter account boasts more than 2 million followers, was not the only conservative influencer to get locked out prior to the inauguration. Twitter also locked the account of RSBN, which has amassed more than a half-million followers.