Social-Media
"Shut down" social media after Twitter Fact Checks Trump Threatens
President Trump fired two tweets Wednesday to his 80 million followers, suggesting that after Twitter has tested his promises to vote via phone, he will be closing down social media sites.
While the company has been involved in discussions about freedom of speech and false or endangering posts for years, it checked the tweets of the President for the first time on Tuesday.
Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2020
Twitter flagged two Trump tweets which linked mail-in votes to voting fraud by posting a link to the people who read: "Get facts about mail-in votes." The Twitter tweets were not supported.
After clicking on the prompt people have been taken to a newsletter page that refutes the President's claims, together with the collection of tweets from newsagents and journalists.
Also not false statements about mosques, attacks on immigrants, or inaccurate tweets about the pandemic. https://t.co/PQ3gDne8EM
— Jane Lytvynenko
