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WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to wield the powers of the federal government to shut down major social media platforms ahead of Novembers general election \u2014 comparing what he said is their malign influence over the 2020 campaign to his baseless claims of large-scale mail-in voter fraud.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen,\u201d Trump wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We cant let a more sophisticated version of that happen again. Just like we cant let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots. Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trumps warning, which represented an escalation of his previous rhetoric targeting the tech giants over purported bias against conservative expression, came after Twitter flagged two of his posts on Tuesday with fact-check warnings. Those posts falsely asserted absentee ballots are likely to be \u201csubstantially fraudulent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president later in the day lashed out against the company for the first-of-its-kind intervention on his social media feed, declaring online that Twitter \u201cis now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election\u201d and \u201ccompletely stifling FREE SPEECH.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, the Trump administration asked social media users to report directly to the White House if they believed companies like Facebook and Twitter had punished them for their political views.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Facebook, Twitter and other high-profile titans of the tech industry have come under bipartisan criticism by congressional lawmakers in recent years for their use of Americans personal data. Additionally, Democrats Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n

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