Trump threatened to shut down social media after Twitter added a fact-check warning to his tweets about mail-in ballots. He's long accused social media of censoring conservative views, but it's unclear what he could do to crack down on social platforms.
President Trump, who uses Twitter as his primary form of communication, has long accused Facebook and Twitter of censoring conservative views.President Trump, who uses Twitter as his primary form of communication, has long accused Facebook and Twitter of censoring conservative views.Tensions between President Trump and Twitter escalated Wednesday as he threatened to"strongly regulate" or shut down social media platforms, which he accused of silencing conservative viewpoints.
Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that....
Trump, who uses Twitter as his primary form of communicating, has long accused Facebook and Twitter of censoring conservative views."We're not going to be silenced," he said last summer at
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