Trump threatens to shut down social media

The strong reactions come after Twitter on Tuesday marked two of Trump's postal votes as "unfounded statements".

The President writes, among other things, that postal voting will undoubtedly lead to cheating. Whoever now clicks on the blue markings that appeared during the posts is linked to a page with the headline: "Trump makes unfounded claims that postal votes lead to voting fraud".

The president promptly responded to the fact review and wrote, among other things, that "Twitter intervenes in the presidential election" and that they "stifle freedom of speech".

On Wednesday, another presidential Twitter tweet followed, this time aimed at social media in general.

"Republicans feel that social media platforms silence conservative voices. We will regulate them heavily or shut them down before we allow that to happen, ”Trump wrote on Twitter.

"We saw what they were trying to do, and failed, in 2016. We cannot allow a more sophisticated version of it to happen again," the president continues, without specifying what he is referring to.

The last post ends with the call: "Social media, focus on you, NOW".