Trump's threats come one day after Twitter, for the first
time, added a fact-check
warning to a pair of his tweets. In them, Trump claimed without
evidence that mail-in ballots are fraudulent.
"Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally
silence conservatives voices," Trump
tweeted on May 27, 2020. "We will strongly regulate, or close
them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted
to do, and failed, in 2016. We can't let a more sophisticated version of
that.... happen again."
Twitter declined to comment on the president's threats.
It's unclear what Trump could do to crack down on social
media platforms, but the power of Silicon Valley tech giants has been the
subject of investigations by
federal and state agencies, as well as congressional hearings.
University of Miami Law Professor Mary Anne Franks said the
president has little legal recourse against Twitter's decision to fact-check
his posts because the company has the right to set and enforce its own rules.
"Can a public official try to regulate or to shut down
a private entity on the basis of not liking what they did?" she said.
"No, that would be exactly what the First Amendment protects us against.
That's the great irony of this."
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