PEN America: President Trump Lashes Out Against Twitter Fact Check
May 28, 2020
May 28, 2020
NEW YORK, May 28 -- PEN America issued the following statement by CEO Suzanne Nossel in response to President Trump's threats to shut down Twitter over its fact-check of his false tweets:
"President Trump's threat to regulate or shut down social media platforms sounds a red alert for all Americans who care about free speech. His call to punish Twitter for its fact-checking of his blatantly false statements is akin to threatening to shut down a newspaper or a TV network for a re . . .
"President Trump's threat to regulate or shut down social media platforms sounds a red alert for all Americans who care about free speech. His call to punish Twitter for its fact-checking of his blatantly false statements is akin to threatening to shut down a newspaper or a TV network for a re . . .