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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told MSNBC that Donald Trump’s latest threats to social media are a distraction from the administration’s failure in the wake of thousands of American deaths within months.
“It’s typical president Trump: a distraction,” she said. “More than 100,000 people have died from the coronavirus. This administration has been a failure in terms of testing, treating and isolating people.”
She said social media companies, hoping to dodge the wrath of the White House, want “no regulation and no taxes” and “they cater to the administration all the time.”
Speaker Pelosi said Mark Zuckerberg’s statement — that Facebook won’t be the “arbiter of truth” for despite dangerous misinformation rampant on the platform — a “disgrace.”
Twitter’s effort to place fact-check warning on the president’s tweets are merely a “token thing,” Speaker Pelosi said.