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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