Trump warns he'll 'monitor the censorship' on social media after Facebook banned some far-right leaders

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WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) - US President Donald Trump on Friday (May 3) threatened to 'monitor' social-media sites for their 'censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS,' a day after Facebook permanently banned far-right figures and organisations including the conspiracy theory site InfoWars.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to"monitor" social-media sites for their"censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS," a day after Facebook permanently banned far-right figures and organisations including the conspiracy theory site InfoWars.

On Thursday, Facebook announced it had permanently banned users including Louis Farrakhan, the founder of the Nation of Islam who has been accused of anti-Semitism, along with far-right figures Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer and Alex Jones, the founder of Infowars. Before its permanent ban, Facebook had taken more limited action targeting users such as Jones, who has threatened journalists and attacked the victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.For his part, President Trump repeatedly has accused popular social-networking sites of exhibiting political bias, and threatened to regulate Silicon Valley in response.

I am continuing to monitor the censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS on social media platforms. This is the United States of America — and we have what’s known as FREEDOM OF SPEECH! We are monitoring and watching, closely!!

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Poor trump his fascist soldiers can’t do the dirty work for him.

Far-right? Oh cmon... Please don’t go to the level of American mainstream news media. They aren’t far-right at all.

Leaders? How about simply arrogant jackasses ? Wait, that's our 'leader'

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