The president criticized the social media platform after it took action against his recent posts.
President Donald Trump claims Twitter has ignored propaganda from China, despite the site having added fact-check labels to comments from the nation’s foreign ministry spokesperson.
Trump has criticized social media platforms in recent days after Twitter flagged comments he made about mail-in voting. The social media giant most recently censored one of his tweets as the company claimed it violated user rules on „glorifying violence.“
Following the latest action from the platform, Trump accused the platform of targeting Republicans and conservatives.
„Twitter is doing nothing about all of the lies & propaganda being put out by China or the Radical Left Democrat Party,“ he wrote on Twitter. „They have targeted Republicans, Conservatives & the President of the United States.“
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has also previously accused Twitter of double standards for fact-checking Trump but not Chinese propaganda.
However, as reported by Newsweek prior to Trump’s latest comments, Twitter had recently marked comments from China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Lijian Zhao with fact-check labels after media organizations, including Newsweek, had questioned the warnings made by Zhao.
Those labels came after Zhao suggested: „It might be U. S. army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan.
