It seems to be a common sight seeing Donald Trump having a spat on Twitter, but not with the social media company per se. The United States President is now having an altercation with Twitter itself after it fact-checked his posts about mail-in voting.
Donald Trump seemed to begin a war against Twitter and even warned to shut down social media platforms after it tagged his tweets with a fact-checking warning. The 73-year-old made unfounded claims about mail-in voting after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced to just mail ballots to registered voters amid the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Melania Trump's husband stressed that there was no way that mail-in ballots would be "anything less than substantially fraudulent." He believed mailboxes could be robbed, and ballots could be forged, illegally printed out, and fraudulently signed that could tamper the votes.
He seemed to be worried that anyone living in the state could get ballots if the Governor of California started sending them. He also seemed to be afraid that the professionals would tell people, who have no idea how and who to vote, what names to write on the ballot, saying it would result in a "rigged election," contradicting their plan.
Twitter then put a blue, fact-check exclamation point symbol in his tweets. When people clicked the warning symbol, it would bring them to a CNN fact-check that said Donald Trump made an unconfirmed claim that mail-in ballots would lead to voter fraud. It also noted that according to CNN, Washington Post, and others that his stand was unfounded as experts confirmed that mail-in ballots were "rarely linked to voter fraud."
As expected, the former TV personality lashed out over the warning sign. He accused Twitter of interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election, saying his statement about mail-in ballots was wrong. He also called CNN and other news programs fake. He also summoned the social media website for oppressing free speech, and as the President, he would not let it happen.
Later, according to NDTV, Donald Trump threatened to close down social media platforms. He explained that the Republicans felt like social media sites "totally silence" the Conservatives' voices. Hence, he suggested to strongly regulate or shut them down before this thing could happen.
The famed businessman has been using Twitter to make claims, accusations, and even spread unconfirmed information to his 80 million followers. Recently, Donald Trump made a series of tweets and wanted to revisit the death of Joe Scarborough's former aide.
