President Trump amplifies far-right voices in protest against Facebook's ban

President Donald Trump visited Twitter on Saturday to denounce social media that unfairly marginalizes conservative voices, a few days after Facebook banned so-called extremist users from its platform.

The president's series of tweets and retweets has intensified his public feud with social media giants such as Twitter and Facebook. Trump claimed that social media companies were unfairly targeting conservative voices, but platforms like Facebook said the ban was commonplace.

This week, Facebook permanently banned several so-called extremists, including InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, white nationalist Paul Nehlan, right-winger Milo Yiannopoulos and Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. many anti-Semitic statements to promote violence, hatred or racism on the platform, according to media reports.

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Trump tweeted Friday afternoon that he was monitoring "censorship" by social media platforms, adding, "This is the United States of America – and we have what's called the freedom of expression! We monitor and monitor closely !!

The next day, Trump retweeted complaints about Facebook's recent ban on social networks, such as Paul Joseph Watson, which helped promote conspiracy theories that 9/11 was an internal job and had been banished from Facebook, and Lauren Southern, who claims that Islam has "fucked" her generation.

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The president also tweeted about James Woods, a Hollywood actor whose Twitter account was suspended for tweeting: "If you're trying to kill the king, you'd better not miss it. #HangThemAll "in response to the Mueller report.

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We have always banned people or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hatred, regardless of their ideology. The assessment process for potential offenders is complex and this led us to make the decision to delete these accounts today.

Yet Twitter said in a statement that Woods was not banned: once the tweet deleted, his access would be restored.

President tweeted"How is it possible that James Woods (and many others), a strong but responsible Conservative voice, will be banned from Twitter?", Tweeted Trump while returning from his golf club in Virginia. "Social media and fake media, as well as their partner, the Democratic Party, have no idea of ​​the problems they pose themselves. THIS IS REALLY UNJUST!

The son of President Donald Trump Jr. also played the role tweeted: "the media will only be happy when anyone to the right of @ CNN will be banned from expressing it." And do not pretend that it's only social media, the leftists are already pressuring web hosting sites, banks and credit card companies to ban people with whom they do not agree politically ".

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Capitol Hill Republicans have held hearings for over a year on what they describe as bias against news and conservative views, even suggesting that censorship of some speeches policy raises antitrust issues. But technology companies say that it is not political speech, but rather discourse inciting violence or hatred.

The president, apparently alongside those who have been banned from Facebook, shared the contents of the conspiracy theory website, InfoWars, which attacked Sandy Hook elementary school parents, and shot a video of An account called @DeepStateExposed that features the video of a Muslim man saying that Americans should become Muslims or die.

Trump recently met Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at the White House. He reportedly complained that he lost followers on Twitter and talked about social media and some of his regulations.

Soo Youn of ABC News has contributed since New York.