The US president is angry about marking two of his tweets as misleading. Trump had previously threatened to strictly regulate or even shut down online networks.
US President Donald Trump wants to sign an ordinance on how to deal with online networks this Thursday. That announced the White House on Wednesday without giving details. Trump had previously threatened to strictly regulate or even shut down online networks.
The US President is enraged that the online service Twitter, which he uses extensively, has flagged two of his messages as misleading for the first time. He accused Twitter of “interfering” in the November presidential election. Trump’s attack on Twitter naturally led him to Twitter.
Trump accused the California company of “completely suppressing freedom of speech”. He “would not allow this,” he tweeted. Republican politicians feel that “social media platforms completely silence conservative voices”. “We will strictly regulate or close them before we ever allow that,” the president wrote.
Dispute over postal vote
The contested tweets dealt with alleged fraud in postal votes. Twitter dismissed Trump’s claim that postal elections led to massive vote frauds as false and “unfounded.” Twitter placed a link directly below the President’s tweets, which leads to a fact check on Trump’s statements.
Trump had stated in the tweets without any evidence that a planned expansion of the postal vote in the state of California would result in a “rigged election”. Trump’s allegations relate to upcoming California district elections for a vacant seat in the US House of Representatives. Governor Gavin Newsom wants to expand the possibilities of voting by letter because of the coronavirus pandemic in the election.
(APA / AFP)
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