The president’s comments come after several top social media platforms including Facebook and Spotify curbed or banned accounts of far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. “Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices,” Trump said in a series of morning tweets. “Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen. Facebook said the pages were taken down for “glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies.”Twitter — Trump’s favored medium, where he boasts some 53.8 million followers — meanwhile opted to allow Jones to keep using the platform but in a limited capacity, removing his ability to tweet for an unspecified period of time. Some reports suggested his account was put in “read-only” mode for a week, meaning he cannot tweet or retweet.

Source: The Guardian August 18, 2018 13:30 UTC