Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Wednesday to address a few questions regarding his company’s decision to apply a fact-check …
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Wednesday to address a few questions regarding his company’s decision to apply a fact-check to one of President Donald Trump’s tweets.
“Twitter’s ‘fact check’ raises serious questions about whether Twitter targeted the President for political reasons,” Hawley wrote in a letter to Dorsey Wednesday.
Twitter acted like a publisher rather than a platform where conservatives can congregate to express their political opinions, Hawley said. The Republican also asked why Twitter should continue getting “special immunity under the law in what’s known as Section 230,” a decades-old law providing internet companies legal immunity.
“Twitter’s unprecedented decision to single out the President for disfavor, based on his political speech, is alarming,” Hawley wrote, referring to Twitter’s move Tuesday to apply a label to a Trump tweet calling mail-in ballots “fraudulent.
