Published 13:20 IST, May 28th 2020
Trump accuses Twitter of meddling with US Presidential Election 2020 over fact check row
US President Donald Trump on Thursday, May 28 yet again slammed the micro-blogging site Twitter over flagging his tweets as 'misleading'.
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday, May 28 yet again slammed micro-blogging site Twitter over flagging his tweets as 'misleading'. Taking to Twitter, Trump accused platform of doing everything it can to censor 2020 elections.
US President stated that if social media platforms censor it, n people will longer have ir freedom and said that he will t let it happen. Furr, according to Trump, Twitter had tried to censor presidential election in 2016 elections as well but had failed.
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Meanwhile, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany has anunced that Trump is soon going to sign an executive order regarding social media companies. This comes after Twitter on Tuesday labelled tweets from United States President Donald Trump as misleading and highlighted two of his tweets that falsely claimed mail-in ballots would lead to widespread voter fraud.
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"Get facts about mail-in ballots," read a mess under each tweet. Immediately after this move, Trump accused Twitter of meddling with US Presidential elections and said that he will 't allow' 'stifling of free speech'.
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Trump's tweets
With less than six months left for US Presidential elections, Trump took to Twitter to slam idea of holding elections through “Mail-in Ballots”. Terming it to be 'Rigged election', he stated that mailboxes will be robbed and ballots will be forged.
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Jack Dorsey hits back
Responding to Trump's accusations about social media site trying to censor 2020 elections, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that social networking site would 'continue to point out incorrect information' about elections globally.
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In a series of tweets, he justified that microblogging site's move saying that Trump's tweets on mail-in-ballots could mislead people into thinking that y did t need to register for a ballot which could cause chaos, since only registered voters receive ballots. He also took full responsibility for move.
13:20 IST, May 28th 2020