Events have accelerated with a very rapid pace in the last period regarding the relationship of US President Donald Trump with social media, a relationship known to be tense since he entered the White House, but it seems that it is likely to be a further escalation, especially in light of Trump's explicit threats.
Trump was posting a tweet related to his criticism of California state authorities' intention to allow state voters to vote by mail, which he said in his tweet that he would be a precursor to fraud and fraud in the US presidential election, which prompted Twitter to use the Fact-checking feature And that was listed under Trump's tweets, which angered the American president, prompting him to accuse Twitter of stifling freedom of expression in the country.
Big Tech is doing everything in their very considerable power to CENSOR in advance of the 2020 Election. If that happens, we no longer have our freedom. I will never let it happen! They tried hard in 2016, and lost. Now they are going absolutely CRAZY. Stay Tuned!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2020
Donald Trump, after this incident, expressed a fit of unprecedented anger, to the point that he launched a threat yesterday to shut down or even censor social media platforms, but what is more dangerous for observers is the White House announcement that US President Donald Trump intends to sign a presidential decree on Social media on the background of his recent conflict with Twitter, which is the decree that does not yet know its nature and whether it will lead to any change in the nature of the work of these sites.
However, the Washington Post indicated that this presidential decree will encourage the American security services to examine the general conditions for using social networks to reveal their flaws, in what appears to be a new chapter in Donald Trump's war on these sites, and this period is considered very sensitive for the American president, Considering that the presidential elections will take place in November this year.