Where will Trump rant if not on Twitter? He threatens to close down social media
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to close down social media platforms after Twitter labelled two of his tweets “unsubstantiated” and accused him of earning false claims.
“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,” Trump tweeted.
Twitter targeted two tweets the president posted on Tuesday where he contended without evidence that mail-in voting would bring about fraud and a “Rigged Election.”
Under the tweets, Twitter posted a web link which read “Get the reality about mail-in ballots”-a first for the social networking which includes long resisted calls to censure the US president over truth-defying posts.
Trump pushed again on Wednesday saying “we can’t let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country. It will be a free of charge for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots.
“Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Tidy up your act, NOW!!!!”
The president also accused social media platforms of interfering within the last election, saying “we saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016.”
“We can’t let a far more sophisticated version of this happen again.”
The president has long used Twitter as a platform to spread abuse, conspiracy theories, false information and insults to his 80 million followers.
Before being elected in 2016, he built his political brand by supporting the “birther” lie that Barack Obama, America’s first black president, was not born in america and therefore had not been eligible to be president.
And he has ignited another storm with an attempted character assassination of MSNBC TV host Joe Scarborough by spreading the baseless rumour that he murdered an aide.
