Trump threatens to 'strongly regulate' social media platforms after Twitter labels his tweets

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U.S. 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.

Conservatives have long complained that tech platforms algorithmically censor right-wing voices. The claims derive from a perception that Silicon Valley's largely left-leaning workforce has designed social media products to discriminate against conservatives, though the companies strongly deny the allegations.

The label, which Twitter has designed to combat misinformation and unverified claims, linked to a curated page with links and summaries of articles describing how Trump's claims on mail-in ballots are unfounded.

 

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Who is he King Trump, IMHO if you can't handle the heat, get out of the sun

And it starts.

This guy must be reading books on how to be like Putin, and rocket man.he MUST be thrown out of the white house, before it's to late

Good, they should be held accountable for shadowbanning, manipulating election opinions, promoting left wing idiology and overall getting away with being clearly biased, claiming they are just a platform.

🤣😜😂🤪

Good luck with that! 🤣🤣

Lmao 😂 I guess you have no control over Twitter bet the pisses ypu off big time something you have no say or control over that’s all social media wanna couple Kleenex so you can go sit in the corner and cry 😢?

LOL. He seems to forget that they made him, and they can break him.

But no one will regulate Trump!!!!

Imagine 1 of our politicians, or a family member, claiming the other a pedophile or a murderer? WTF! I still cannot believe I see these tweets from adults! In Canada your political career would be over. How vile & disgusting. I don't even want our PM going to the G7 in the US.

When Trudeau said the same, you didn't say one single word about it! What's changed now?

Please twitter, take donald trump off you service.

Lol

They already censor our media anyways so what the difference

What a ding bat

uh like China? Russia? realDonaldTrump

The Communications Act signed into Law by none other than Bill Clinton!

Why didn't Twitter fact check tweets about Russian Collusion? Why didn't Twitter fact check tweets about the Steele Dossier? Why didn't Twitter fact check tweets about the Ukraine Hoax? Why didn't Twitter fact check tweets about the impeachment scam?

The story should be 'US President Threatens To Do Things He Has No Power To Do'

Where's all that 'freedom' they love to throw around. lol

About time !

realDonaldTrump clearly the POTUS is threatened with being held to the TRUTH and not his red herring BS! Instead of showing any integrity he decides to double down AGAIN and threaten a founding right of the US~ Freedom of Speech. Sure MAGA you hypocrite 🤨

Wah wah wah cry baby

Strongly regulate like China does? Go figure

He always loves this picture, he adores this man for being such a Great President.

Trump = dictator

boy Trump sounds a lot like Chyyyynaa

Aren't you even a little 'sheepish' highlighting Trumps' standing up for free speech with a negative tilt- the day after Trudeau and Singh shut down free speech in Canadian parliament? If communist Trudeau controlled Twitter he would be the only one allowed to tweet.

Heaven forbid you question what he tweets

At this point how can you take anything Trump does or says seriously. The man is off his rocker he thinks he controls everything but he doesn’t. Ha ha he was fat check one more time!

3 years late. Good call. The fact checks on FB are a joke

Trump is always a good enterinment to the world. Thank you America.

Please do it social media sucks

fAKE NEWS

That's what Trudeau did.

The liberals did the same before the 2019 Canadian election, media crickets

ZCukar And why not?

Wow. America is racing, not inching, towards a totalitarian state on the daily.

Another example of a dictator.

Hey it’s communist USA comrades I am controlling the media , all schools will chant my name as they assemble , build big statues of Me(trump ) so the people will worship me , lol boy never thought america would go this route lol good luck with trump !

BEST PRESIDENT EVER..

Companies need to stop acting like another government imposing their own arbitrary rules on the masses.

Twitter spreafs misinformation all the time, it is just leftist propaganda. As soon as there is a different view, they want to censor it or ban it.

😂😂😂😂 he would never give up twitting!! And this 'almighty' feeling he has... poor guy!

He doesn't own it. What a second hand c...s....r

I'm so glad Canada has a honest and great leader... this would be so embarrassing for a nation

And he should. It's obvious which way social media leans, and what they do to censor people. Bring the hammer down on them.

Lol and he is 239lbs full of shit !! He knows he. Ant do that. Another empty threat

What is he? & Who the heck does he think that he is? Ruler of the world? I don't think so! Trump thinks that in his wee little brain of his but sorry Donald, you're not! Plus you're a person who wants total control & power over everything & anyone in the world, but you don't!

Another twitter tantrum

As all social media companies leave the USA.... I've never seen anyone do as much as trump to hide the truth

Good. We have been suppresed so bad it's sickening. By the way, you are on the wrong side! TrudeauMustGo NoToUN NotoSharia NotoWHO MSMIsTheEnemyOfThePeople

🤔 So it's okay for social media platforms to spread his disinformation but not ok to label it as such? BTW Twitter really didn't need to label them. We already know DT's tweets are 'factually challenged'.

Hello Hitler.

Typical social conservative loves to shovel the 💩. But can not take it . When the 💩get shovel back at them

Check out TheTweetOfGod and JusticeForCarolyn

Check out TheTweetOfGod

Just like the Libetlas here in Canada. CTV. Focus on Canada

Good, get 'er' done!

That's a direct breach of the constitution,,,this is your Dictator,America! Congrats!

Swamp monsters are scared

The truth hurts

finally

I mean he could show how what he's saying about mail in ballots is 'true' instead of lashing out? His reaction further adds to the evidence that what he's saying simply isn't true.

Like Putin and China?

Twitter should have done this YEARS ago!

Maybe these right wingers can all deactivate their accounts and we never hear from them again.

Trump quote 'wa wa wa'

Of course. Do they do that with Butt's, and Gretta's climate crap? Wynne's? XI'S?

Like the pathetic spoiled brat he is.

He is a dictator who is now paranoid and delusional.

Better yet, quit. It will give you more time for golf.

That’s illegal no?

Over the whole world?

Trump is dangerously creeping to becoming a fascist. Someone who wants to control the media to protect his persona is a BIG problem.

He is just loosing a platform he can use to lie and threaten those that oppose his rule.

He has a point, not sure if censoring censors to stop censoring is the right approach though

1 hour to comb hair & two cans of hairspray 1 hour to apply bronzer to face Shoes with lifts Girdle Depends Conspiracy Qanon pusher Whiny Complainer Vain Petty Narcissist Hates working class folks Mobster & criminal Shit scared bully says what?

Since it's a private company, in order to do what he wants with it, he would have to get the government to buy it up. So how do you justify a government administration buying up an entire social media platform in order to regulate it? The American masses won't like the censure.

Doesn't sound like a democracy to me....

Only because he has a tremendously limited vocabulary ... very tremendous ... good to see court jester has real life problems POTUS realDonaldTrump WorstPresidentEver

Wow what a sham twitter has become. Can their not be a conservative platform created

We should all pick a day and quit Twitter because it is just poison ☠️ Now. Bad for our collective mental health.

So I guess celebrities get a pass then right ?

Go gettem POTUS45 Social media platforms like Twitter, FaceBook, You Tube etc along with the MSM world wide. HAVE NO RIGHT TO BLOCK THE Truth OF MILLIONS OF PPL SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE IN JUSTICES OF THE GLOBE BY THE CORRUPTION

of course

Seems totally unbiased (sarcasm).

Try it dude.

HEY CTV DID YOU HEAR ABOUT JOE BIDEN SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE AND DID YOU HEAR ABOUT JOE BIDEN TELLING BLACKS THAT IF THEY VOTE TRUMP THEN THEY AIN'T BLACK

He's ridiculous

Ctv McDonalds is hiring

Good. CTV and friends you still all suck. Pathetic news reporters 👎👎👎👎👎start covering the Trudeau scandals. Obamagate Trudeaugste bitter sweet

How about realDonaldTrump deals with the real issues at hand. Covid_19

Just another delusional drug addict. I have nothing but pity for that poor poor country

Trudeau has been nothing short of a festival of lies for the past 5 years. Not once was he otherwise tagged or warned even.

They don’t call him ‘get even Donnie’ for nothing. TrumpMeltdown thedon trumppayback

No checks and balances. We need to create a way to get term limits in place on congress who have failed and now we have a breakdown in the rule of law. This president wants everything his way. An invasive species...with the senate and the Justice Department.

...so should Twitter label his ridiculous tweets.

🇨🇳

President Trump is doing his job while Justin Trudeau sits on his couch at home. BigDifference

this is the guy in charge of fact checking 🤦‍♂️

GOOD they are BIAS as hell and are banning people for obvious BIAS reasons. ORANGE MAN BAD reasons.

How like Hitler to try to Censor the Media.

Bahaha

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