'If I announce tomorrow that I'm going to become a nice, liberal Democrat, I would pick up five times more followers,' Trump claimed without evidence.
In July 2018, Twitter announced that, as part of an effort to make sure follower counts were"meaningful and accurate," the company would begin to remove suspect accounts from the service.
Republican lawmakers have largely rallied around Trump's unfounded claims that social media companies are engaging in anti-conservative censorship. In April, Republican Senator Ted Cruz led a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing premised on the notion that Google, Facebook and Twitter were stifling free speech from conservative users.
Earlier this year, the progressive media watchdog group Media Matters For America released a study showing that right-leaning and left-leaning Facebook pages earned nearly identical engagement metrics. In fact, the Fox News Facebook page often receives more attention than any other major news organization.
US President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order to establish a White House council on affordable housing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on June 25, 2019.When the president's tweets run up against Twitter's terms of service and its prohibitions on incitement to violence, critics have implored Dorsey to enforce company policies on hateful or dangerous content against Trump's account.
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