5 hours agoUS President Trump threatens to close social networks
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)US President Donald Trump has threatened “for the strong overhaul” or closure of social networking platforms that do not meet its standards for ideological balance. This came just a day after Twitter, for the first time, put a warning label on a string of Trump posts that he could be spreading lies [...]
This came just a day after Twitter, for the first time, put a warning label in a string of Trump posts that he could be spreading lies about the way of the e-mail voting.
The subx0> Republicans believe that Social Media platforms are totally silenced the conservatives' voices,” wrote Trump on Twitter this morning. We're going to fix them strongly, or we're going to shut down completely, before we let something like that happen. ”
Trump in the past has made threats to media censorship but has not taken any action, Periscope sent by The Guardian.
In a federal court ruling in 2018 it was said that the president could not block people on Twitter, because this decreed the first amendment of the right to participate in the <x0-forum public”.
Twitter had put links on Trump's tweets by inviting them to “get the facts about the way they voted by email”. /Periscope
