Both Biden and Trump have blasted social media companies over their handling of political content. Trump, whose digital campaign helped propel him to the White House in 2016, has long accused the companies, without evidence, of censorship against conservatives. — AFP
US President Donald Trump on May 27 threatened to regulate or shut down social media companies, a day after Twitter Inc for the first time added a fact-checking label to some of his tweets about mail-in ballots.
The regulation of big technology companies including Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google has been a hot button issue ahead of the US presidential election on Nov 3.
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