President Donald Trump blasted the social media giants in an interview with former Fox News anchor Eric Bolling and accused Facebook and Twitter of “trying to protect Biden.”
On Tuesday, Bolling asked the president if he believes Twitter and Facebook are “cheating” or “biased in this election.”
The president said, “One hundred percent and frankly, that’s turning out to be as big a story as the corruption itself. They are trying to protect him, because that’s the way it is with the Democrats. It’s a part of the Democrat Party, I guess. “
“They’re trying protect Biden from this corruption where they got caught and that’s turning out to be just as big of a story,” he added.
Asked if it was “censorship”, Trump responded, “of course, it’s at a level that nobody thought possible.”
“They’re (Facebook & Twitter) trying to protect Biden from his corruption where they got caught. And that’s turning out to be just as big a story.@realDonaldTrump responds to: Are Facebook & Twitter practicing bias.. and do you believe they are interfering in the election? pic.twitter.com/3GuzmcaMg3
— 🇺🇸 ERIC BOLLING 🇺🇸 (@ericbolling) October 21, 2020
The tech companies recently received criticism for suppressing a New York Post story about Hunter Biden, but Trump has lashed out at Twitter for years.
Throughout much of the Trump tenure, the president has kept from attacking Facebook. The company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has worked to fend off additional regulations, and attack tweets from the president.
But Facebook has recently started putting warning labels on some posts from the president, including one urging North Carolinians to vote twice.
Twitter has been a bit more aggressive in how they fact-check the president, especially on issues like the coronavirus and mail-in voting, which Trump has insisted is a “scam.”
Zuckerberg has defended the largely hands-off policies at his company, saying “I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online. Private companies probably shouldn’t be, especially these platform companies, shouldn’t be in the position of doing that.”
But Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shot back, “Fact check: there is someone ultimately accountable for our actions as a company, and that’s me … We’ll continue to point out incorrect or disputed information about elections globally.”
