Twitter fact-checks Trump; he threatens new regulations or shutdown
The president can't unilaterally regulate or close the companies, and any effort would likely require action by Congress. His administration has shelved a proposed executive order empowering the Federal Communications Commission to regulate technology companies, citing concerns it wouldn't pass legal muster. But that didn't stop Trump from angrily issuing strong warnings.. "We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.
Dorsey added: "This does not make us an 'arbiter of truth.' Our intention is to connect the dots of conflicting statements and show the information in dispute so people can judge for themselves." Trump replied on Twitter, accusing the platform of "interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election" and insisting that "as president, I will not allow this to happen." His 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, said Twitter's "clear political bias" had led the campaign to pull "all our advertising from Twitter months ago." Twitter has banned all political advertising since last November.
Some Trump allies have questioned whether platforms like Twitter and Facebook should continue to enjoy liability protections as "platforms" under federal law -- or be treated more like publishers, which can face lawsuits over content. Twitter's first-ever use of a label on Trump's tweets comes as platforms gear up to combat misinformation around the U.S. presidential election. Twitter and Facebook have begun rolling out dozens of new rules to avoid a repeat of the false postings about the candidates and the voting process that marred the 2016 election.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg weighed in on the matter during a Fox News interview Wednesday. "We have a different policy, I think, than Twitter on this," he said. "I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online."
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