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Trump threatens to crack down on social media platforms after Twitter labels his tweets - CNNPolitics
It all started a week ago with Trump's tweet:
Now, there are things here objectively wrong.
1) Trump's original tweet claimed absentee ballots were sent. It was actually ballot applications. He since corrected that.
2) It was not illegal to do so.
3) No authorization from the president is required to do this.
Later, we run into this:
Twitter put a fact check link on his mail-in ballot claims. Here, he's claiming everyone living in the state gets one. That's false. The ballots are being sent to registered voters.
Furthermore, the idea that this leads to "massive voter fraud" is completely false. Absentee ballots have been around for ages. Trump himself voted by mail, but wants to deny you the opportunity to do so.
Trump has lost his **** at being fact-checked by Twitter. So much so that he's gone on an unhinged rant about censorship, the first amendment, etc. He's even threatened to "regulate or even shut down" social media sites. Naturally, we'll see conservatives in this thread defend this.
The man is psychotic. I challenge any conservative here to go to Trump's twitter feed and read just one week of Trump's tweets. (in getting these screenshots, the sheer volume of the deranged posting left me shocked. I normally only see bits and pieces because I don't go to twitter directly)
That's right folks. You're stifling free speech if you post a fact-check link that disagrees with the president!
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to "strongly regulate" or even shut down social media platforms after Twitter applied a fact-check to two of his tweets this week.
Trump did not elaborate on what actions he could take. But the threat is Trump's clearest expression of intent to use the power of government to target his perceived political enemies in the private sector -- businesses that already enjoy wide latitude under the law to moderate their platforms as they see fit. And it raises the stakes for Twitter and Facebook as they grapple with Trump's misleading claims about mail-in voting and his baseless insinuations that a cable TV news host had a hand in an aide's death decades ago.
It all started a week ago with Trump's tweet:
Now, there are things here objectively wrong.
1) Trump's original tweet claimed absentee ballots were sent. It was actually ballot applications. He since corrected that.
2) It was not illegal to do so.
3) No authorization from the president is required to do this.
Later, we run into this:
Twitter put a fact check link on his mail-in ballot claims. Here, he's claiming everyone living in the state gets one. That's false. The ballots are being sent to registered voters.
Furthermore, the idea that this leads to "massive voter fraud" is completely false. Absentee ballots have been around for ages. Trump himself voted by mail, but wants to deny you the opportunity to do so.
Trump has lost his **** at being fact-checked by Twitter. So much so that he's gone on an unhinged rant about censorship, the first amendment, etc. He's even threatened to "regulate or even shut down" social media sites. Naturally, we'll see conservatives in this thread defend this.
The man is psychotic. I challenge any conservative here to go to Trump's twitter feed and read just one week of Trump's tweets. (in getting these screenshots, the sheer volume of the deranged posting left me shocked. I normally only see bits and pieces because I don't go to twitter directly)
That's right folks. You're stifling free speech if you post a fact-check link that disagrees with the president!