Trump lashes out at social media companies after Twitter labels tweets with fact checks

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Trump lashed out at social media companies Wednesday in response to Twitter labeling two of his tweets.

last week that Trump was considering creating a White House panel that would examine complaints of bias against conservatives on social media and other online platforms.Trump and his surrogates have some of the most popular accounts on social platforms but frequently protest that the social media companies censor their voices.

During its 14-year existence, Twitter has allowed misinformation by world leaders and everyday citizens to spread virtually unchecked. Its leaders have long said users would engage in debate on the platform and correct false information on their own.But Trump has made many false claims on social media, particularly on his preferred medium of Twitter, and also has attacked people in ways critics have argued could violate company policies on harassment and bullying.

Twitter is debating whether to take action on the Scarborough tweets, said a person familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.Widower of Joe Scarborough staffer seeks removal of Trump tweets that promote baseless conspiracy theory

Its much larger rival Facebook, by contrast, launched a fact-checking program several years ago. Facebook funds an army of third-party fact-checkers to investigate content, which then gets labeled on the site and demoted in its reach. However, Trump posted the same content about mail-in ballots on Facebook.Facebook said it didn’t plan to label or remove the post.

Twitter, which has roughly 330 million users compared to Facebook’s 2.6 billion, has not had the resources or the institutional will to engage fact-checkers.

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Then why in the heck is realDonaldTrump still using Twitter . If you eat at a restaurant and hate it. You don’t go back! If he uses it then what he is saying is not true. He says one thing and does another. He contradicts himself right after making a decision.

Creep!

realDonaldTrump tell the truth for a change

Expressing an opinion is one thing. Lying is another thing! Remember the eighth commandment of God, Donald. 'You shouldn't lie.'

seems the ginger boy got fired up

Ha ha

Perfectly in sync with the WH, Female Wing, BeBest campaign, 😏

Completely beside the point, but I see the man behind him has perfected the difficult Trump Forward Tipping Torso move, right down to the unnatural arms.

Fact checks for Trump, Kathy Griffin's hate speech advocating murder of a President goes unanswered

If he’s not fighting and bashing someone, he’s not happy....his whole life has become fighting perceived enemies in his paranoid mind....

realDonaldTrump POTUS

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Trump threatens to shutter social media companies after Twitter warningU.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to regulate or shut down social media companies, one day after Twitter Inc for the first time added a warning to some of his tweets prompting readers to fact check the president's claims. Короновирусная шизофрения обуяла планету. Все вокруг я That's the first bit of real good news this year if it takes him off of social media completely. By his definition, correcting his followers' misspelling of 'they're' is 'silencing conservative voices.' It's an asterisk to a link correcting the error, not censorship, ya big dummy.
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