US President warns to shut down social media platforms

US President Donald Trump has threatened to shut down social networking platforms after Twitter issued a fact-checking warning on some messages.

In a tweet on Wednesday, he said, "Republicans feel that social media platforms are completely silencing conservative voices. We will strictly regulate or shut them down before this happens to us. We saw that He made a similar attempt in 2016 and failed.

Twitter has long been criticized for allowing the US president to spread conspiracy theories, even though his policies call for an end to the spread of misinformation.

But for the first time on Tuesday, fact-checking tags appeared on some of the US president's tweets.

In his tweets, Donald Trump said without proof that voting by mail would lead to fraud and "rigged elections".

Twitter provided a link to the bottom of Trump's tweets that read, "Find out the facts about the mail in the ballots," and users had to point out that these claims were false, citing media reports.

In his response, Donald Trump dismissed the notice, calling Twitter biased. "Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 presidential election," he said.

"They are dismissing my statement that the mail-in ballots pave the way for corruption and fraud, based on the facts of the news, CNN and the Washington Post," he said on Twitter. '

"Twitter is completely suppressing freedom of expression and I will not allow that as president," he said.

It should be noted that the US presidential election will be held in November this year in which former Democrat Vice President Joe Biden is running against Donald Trump.

Earlier this month, Twitter announced that labels and warning messages would be added to some tweets based on misinformation or conflict.

The move is aimed at curbing the spread of misinformation in the social media network and will be gradually extended to other topics.

Twitter's new labels will also provide links to more information so that people are not confused or misunderstood.