U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that it is \u201cvery dangerous\u201d for social media companies like Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc to silence voices on their services. Donald Trump\u2019s comments in an interview with Reuters come as the social media industry faces mounting scrutiny from Congress to police foreign propaganda.<\/p>\n
Trump has made his Twitter account \u2013 with more than 53 million followers \u2013 an integral and controversial part of his presidency, using it to promote his agenda, announce policy and attack critics. Trump previously criticized the social media industry on Aug. 18, claiming without evidence in a series of tweets that unnamed companies were \u201ctotally discriminating against Republican\/Conservative voices.\u201d In the same post, Trump said \u201ctoo many voices are being destroyed, some good & some bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those tweets followed actions taken by Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc\u2019s YouTube and Facebook to remove some content posted by Infowars, a website run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Jones\u2019 own Twitter account was temporarily suspended on Aug. 15. \u201cI won\u2019t mention names but when they take certain people off of Twitter or Facebook and they\u2019re making that decision, that is really a dangerous thing because that could be you tomorrow,\u201d said Trump.<\/p>\n
Trump appeared on a show produced by Infowars, hosted by Jones, in December 2015 while campaigning for the White House. In removing Jones\u2019 content, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook each pointed to specific user agreement violations. For example, Facebook removed several pages associated with Infowars after determining they violated policies concerning hate speech and bullying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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