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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to regulate or shut down social media companies for stifling conservative voices, a day after Twitter attached a warning to some of his tweets prompting readers to fact check the president’s claims.
We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen
Trump’s threat to shut down platforms like Twitter and Facebook was his strongest yet within a broader conservative backlash against big tech.
Asked what action Trump would take against social media companies like Twitter, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway told reporters on Wednesday: “We’ll see what happens.”
Twitter’s dramatic shift on Tuesday prompted Trump to accuse it of interfering in November’s presidential election
Republican and Democratic lawmakers, along with the justice department, have been considering proposed changes to section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a federal law that largely exempts online platforms from legal liability for the material their users post.
Twitter’s dramatic shift on Tuesday prompted Trump to accuse it of interfering in November’s presidential election, while its rival Facebook left Trump’s post on mail-in ballots untouched on its platform on Tuesday.
