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Trump Takes On Twitter

President Trump’s feud with his favorite communication platform is getting ugly. This past week, he signed an executive order to slash legal protections for social media companies, claiming that Twitter has “unchecked power” after it flagged two of his tweets with fact-check labels. Twitter’s spokesman said that the tweets, in which Mr. Trump made false claims about mail-in voting, “contain potentially misleading information about the voting process and have been labeled to provide additional context.” It was the first time the company put warnings on Mr. Trump’s posts, but it wasn’t the last. Early on Friday, the president tweeted that demonstrators in Minneapolis were “THUGS” after protests had escalated there over the death of a black man, George Floyd, while in police custody. Mr. Trump then threatened that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Twitter said his post violated its rules about glorifying violence. But rather than take it down (the normal protocol for such violations), the company put up a “public interest notice” that cautions users about the post’s content before they read it.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/business/the-week-in-business-trump-twitter-coronavirus.html