Headline RoundupAugust 20th, 2018
President Trump Criticizes Social Media Companies for "Censorship" and "Discrimination" Against the Right
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On Saturday, President Trump tweeted criticism of social media companies, saying they are censoring and discriminating against Republican and conservative voices by shutting down their accounts or otherwise removing their content.
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Trump, via Twitter, says social media discriminates against GOP, conservative voicesUSA TODAY
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President Donald Trump, addressing his 53.8 million Twitter followers, charged Saturday that social media discriminates against Republican and conservative voices and that his administration would not let that happen.
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Donald Trump’s Social Media Solution? A Free-For-All For Both The ‘Good And Bad’HuffPost
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“Let everybody participate, good and bad, and we will all just have to figure it out,” the president tweeted Saturday morning.
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Trump Slams Social Media Censorship As Big Tech Silences PragerU, Other ConservativesTownhall
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President Donald J. Trump slammed social media and big tech. today for their censorship of conservative voices, arguing that mainstream media sites like CNN and MSNBC are allowed to post fake news without punishment and that "censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police."
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