Fact-Checks: Trump Slaps Twitter Of Interference In His Tweets

The United States President, Donald Trump has accused management of Twitter of interring in the US November elections and infringing ‘free speech’ on its platform.

Brandnewsday learned that on Tuesday, Twitter issued a fact check label on two of President Trump’s tweets. The tweets claiming that the mail-in voter ballots are subject to extreme fraud.

Trump who insinuated that the ballots could be manipulated as some states are having increase access to postal voting to protect public health ahead of the November poll.

Reacting to President Trump tweet, Twitter stated that “Get the facts about mail-in ballots,” as the platform flagged and redirects users to news articles and a bulleted list exposing Trump’s claims.

Conversely, Trump attacked the company of “interfering” in the November presidential election and impinging on free speech.

“Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!” he tweeted.

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However, Twitter spokesman, Nick Pacilio revealed that people’s tweets will determine whether the fact-check will continue or not stating that “based on what people tweet”.

Reacting to the recent development, many Twitter users have started criticizing the platform heavily for allowing the 45th President of the United States that has more than 80 million followers to “tweet anything at will”.

Subsequently, Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, said: “Partnering with biased fake news ‘fact checkers’ is a smokescreen to lend Twitter’s obvious political tactics false credibility.”

Speaking further, Parscale claimed that “there are many reasons we pulled all our advertising from Twitter months ago, and clear political bias is one of them”.

Recall that Twitter announced last year that it would mark tweets that violate its policies on such things as abusive behaviour and public safety.