President Trump threatened action against social media companies one day after Twitter, for the first time, fact-checked one of his tweets on mail-in voting
in response to the coronavirus pandemic—but only after repeated calls to do so—flagging tweets that contain conspiracy claims behind the virus like blaming billionaire Bill Gates and 5G technology.surrounding Trump’s messages online.
The widower of Lori Klausutis, an aide to Joe Scarborough when he was a member of Congress and who died suddenly in 2001, called on the platform to take down the president’s tweets baselessly accusing the MSNBC host of of having murdered her. As recently as this past weekend, Trump has continued to push a conspiracy theory on Twitter that Scarborough had an affair with Klausutis and then murdered her.
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