Updated on 05/27/2020 at 22:20
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Washington [AFP]. The American President, Donald trump, threatened this Wednesday to “strongly regulate” or “close” social media platforms, after Twitter He will flag two of his tweets as “misleading” and treat them as disseminators of unverified information.
Republicans feel that social media platforms completely silence conservative voices. We are going to regulate them strongly or we are going to close them, rather than allow something like this to happen ”the president tweeted.
Twitter pointed out two tweets of Trump published Tuesday, in which the president said without evidence that voting by mail would lead to a rigged election.
“There is no way that voting by mail is anything other than substantially fraudulent”, he wrote then.
Under the posts, Twitter posted a link that says: “Get the information on voting by mail”, a first for the social network that has long resisted calls to censor the American president for publications that defy the truth.
Again, Trump He lashed out Wednesday writing: “We cannot allow large-scale mail ballots to take root in our country. It would be freedom for all the deceits, falsifications and robberies of ballots “.
“Whoever cheated the most would win. In the same way as social networks. Clean up what you’ve done, NOW! ”said the president.
Trump He also accused social networks of interfering in the last elections: “We saw what they tried to do and failed in 2016.”
“We cannot allow a more sophisticated version of that to reoccur,” added.
The president has used Twitter for a long time as a platform to spread insults, conspiracy theories, false information and insults, before its 80 million followers.
Before being elected in 2016, he built his political brand by supporting the lie that Barack Obama, the first black president of United States, he had not been born in the country and, therefore, was not eligible to be president.
And recently it has sparked another storm by spreading the unfounded rumor that MSNBC television host Joe Scarborough had murdered an assistant.
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