BREAKING: Donald Trump threatens to shut down social media as Twitter fact-checks him
Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.
President Trump hit out hours after two of his tweets claiming mail-in ballots could lead to electoral fraud were flagged as ‘potentially misleading’ by Twitter. The micro-blogging site is the president’s preferred means of communication, and Trump regularly uses it to share his apparently unfiltered thoughts with his 80 million followers.
Since May 12, Trump has sent numerous messages falsely claiming TV host Joe Scarborough – a vociferous critic of his administration – may have killed former employee Lori Klausutis in 2001. Klausutis fell and died aged 28 while working for then Congressman Scarborough in his Florida office. An autopsy found she had been killed by an undiagnosed heart condition.
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