After Twitter fact-check Trump threatens to regulate or close down social media platforms

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Once again, Donald Trump has doubled down. Following the addition of a fact-checking warning label added to his tweet about mail-in ballots, Trump took to the platform yet again to denounce it. In what may be his strongest words to date against a service that has largely given him free rein to this point, the president suggested that social media services would have to be regulated or shut down. Republicans have long held that social media sites harbor an anti-conservative bias. 

 

“Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices,” he tweeted. “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.”

 

That last bit appears to be a reference to the role platforms like Twitter and Facebook played in the 2016 election. Trump then went on to reassert earlier claims about mail-in ballots, accusing a push for easy access to voting amid a pandemic of being a “free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft.”

 

It was precisely those claims that earned him a Twitter fact-checking label in the first place. As of this writing, however, no such label has been added to the new tweet sent a little after 7AM ET this morning. It’s been a busy couple of days for Trump on his favored social media platform, following the long holiday weekend. Last night he accused the service of “stifling free speech,” in spite of Twitter’s long-standing reluctance to either delete tweets or ban Trump over perceived TOS violations.

 

This morning the president took to Twitter to once again tie a cable news morning host to an old conspiracy theory about his late-wife host and declare “Obamagate” worse than Watergate.

 

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[ghost]

Trump has to realize that he does not have absolute power. The US Constitution provides checks and balances and also co-equal branches of government to prevent power hungry morons from running the country.

[funkyy]

I wake up each day and think it was just a bad dream that the people of the USA voted for a TV  personality, albeit a rich one, as President.

I mean they are so protective about their Constitution and its Amendments you'd think that they'd make a new Amendment that any canditate

for Presidency has to have x number of years of political experience.

I mean what's next? Big Bird from Seseme Street? Myley Cyrus? 

God help us all!!

[Matrix]

3 minutes ago, funkyy said:

God help us all!!

Spoiler

 

[ultrahub]

... and we're still waiting.

[aum]

1 hour ago, funkyy said:

... USA voted for a TV  personality, albeit a rich one, as President.

Well, he is special since he owns a golf course in Scotland of all places.  😉

[funkyy]

3 hours ago, aum said:

Well, he is special since he owns a golf course in Scotland of all places.  😉

Yep, his mother was Scottish. She went to New York as a young girl and Trump's father

was the rich eligible bachelor of that time. He married the Scottish lassie and the rest , as they say, is history...(or hysterical).

It's just a pity he didn't inherit more of his mother's (Scottish) intelligence and less of his daddy's fortune!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[cosy]

That was too expected.

What doesn't match his thoughts and ideas is bad and against him?

We are all looking forward to seeing this and, if so, where is he going to tweet from?

He should make his own platform first before closing the one he is using, 

One cant remove the ladder when one is still above on the same tree he was climbing  😃

[MoonDavon]

And I think that this is probably going to get worse over time...

There are some countries that were in the same political path as US...

 

My 2 cents..

[aum]

8 hours ago, funkyy said:

It's just a pity he didn't inherit more of his mother's (Scottish) intelligence and less of his daddy's fortune!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

An unearned fortune is to be pitied.  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿