Trump slams social media firms for 'silencing millions'

[demmiblue]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump criticized social media companies on Friday for silencing “millions of people” in what he called an act of censorship.

Trump did not mention any of the companies by name. On Tuesday, Facebook Inc (FB.O), Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) removed hundreds of accounts tied to an alleged Iranian propaganda operation, while Facebook took down a second campaign it said was linked to Russia.

“Social Media Giants are silencing millions of people. Can’t do this even if it means we must continue to hear Fake News like CNN, whose ratings have suffered gravely. People have to figure out what is real, and what is not, without censorship!” Trump said.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tech/trump-slams-social-media-firms-for-silencing-millions-idUSKCN1L917W?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

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Link to tweet

[Roy Rolling]

1. His Biggest Grievance?

More Nazis! Why do they all have something against Nazis?! LOL

[PatSeg]

3. I've heard that some are very fine people

[yallerdawg]

2. "People have to figure out what is real."

This from a...person...who factually lies multiple times per day.

After years of this, we have figured out that "real" has nothing to do with the Dotard, any Fox News channel, the National Enquirer ( ) - and now we can officially add in the Republican Party.

[Mc Mike]

4. They're destroying millions of young beautiful electronic lives.

Every time tRump logs on to his sims account, he finds out his whole sims family has been indicted.

You should see what they did to his castle in world of warcraft.

Also, I may not be the most observant man in the world, but it appears that tRump is blubbering. Again.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. Social media giants are silencing millions of trolls and bots.....

mostly Russian ones. It's hurting their wittle feelings..... ...... ........

[highplainsdem]

6. As I pointed out in GD earlier, this is probably about Russian bots being purged.

Trump wants those bots left online to influence the election.


https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100211042453

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Also Jones/Infowars, VDare, David Horowitz, "shadow banning", etc. . . . nt

[truthisfreedom]

7. He's got putin's orders.

Complain complain complain. Widdo snowfwake!

[forgotmylogin]

8. Don't these companies know they're supposed to pay hush money to silence critics? (n/t)

[onecent]

9. Trump is such a pansy....GET OUT OF THE POLICITAL FIELD YOU DUMB ASS

Well "GUESS WHO ISN'T REAL??????"

[lark]

10. Aww, some of his pals Russian bots got busted and he haz a sad.

How dare FB do anything to stop his bigly smart lying ads. Waah!!!

Hope this is just the start of donnies' major tear flows.

[njhoneybadger]

11. Trying to get out in front of Peckergate

tRump colludes with Pecker on fake news stories

[Javaman]

12. Will someone think if the Bots!!! lol nt

[skip fox]

14. I was watching the Fox segment at 6:20 or so

which covered the so-called censorship extensively, with a guest and his lawyer.

A few minutes later, with no collaboration or thought, Trump strikes!

What a fish!

Strange, . . . I got the entire clip of the show a 15 minutes ago, but now it seems like the segment has disappeared. It as at 18:10-22:00 of the clip. The man interviewed was Jason Fyk, a Facebook superstar, and his lawyer, Sean Callagy.


The later Diamond and Silk segment mentions the segment at the very beginning:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5826340064001/?playlist_id=930909787001#sp=show-clips

[skip fox]

15. Straight from Fox & Friends to Trump's Twitter fingers!

as documented in the post above.


Trump's as impetuous as a child wanting the family to take him or her to Pleasure Island.

And if he was any more transparent, he wouldn't exist.

[KWR65]

16. I wish twitter would cancel his account.

It is a private company and can do business with any one it chooses.

[duforsure]

17. He continues to

Aid and abet the enemy. By him doing everything he can to help putin he's openly telling everyone he's putin's asset, and committing treason against this country. When it all comes out and exposes him i just hope they all remember how he's been when he's sentenced. It won't heal a nation letting him off the hook , and not getting what he really deserves. If they don't harshly punish him and his family , next time it'll be much worse. I thought that too with W Bush, if he has little or no consequences it'll send a clear message for the next one he can do even more. We as a nation can't afford this again to happen to this country.

[Initech]

18. No they're not being silenced, you dolt.

The websites have what's called a TOS. They signed up and broke the rules repeatedly. So yeah, STFU Donny.

[meadowlander]

19. Meanwhile, how many people is he blocking on his Twitter account?