On Wednesday morning President Trump ratcheted up his feud with social media platforms, threatening to "close them down" a day after Twitter fact-checked a pair of the president's tweets on mail-in voting.
Trump tweeted , "Republicans 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. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016."
His comments come a day after he accused Twitter of “stifling FREE SPEECH."
Twitter's decision to fact-check the president was a first for the platform, which has received a growing amount of flak about how it deals with misinformation and false statements on its website.
Twitter placed warnings on President Trump's tweets, noting that the president's claim that California would send mail-in ballots to anyone living in the state was false. Twitter, in its fact-check, also pointed out that Trump himself voted by mail in the Florida Republican presidential primary this year.
The widespread use of mail-in ballots is already happening in several states, including Oregon, Utah and Nebraska.
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