The president's personal conflict with Twitter culminated on Thursday with the signing of a decree to further regulate web platforms.
The decree, which originated in Twitter warnings related to the inaccuracy of the president's postal voting tweets, was announced the day before by White House officials and promoted by Donald Trump with tweets seeking to create suspense.
The US president argued before reporters that social media companies would no longer be protected from liability.
He admitted to expecting a legal challenge, but said he was confident of winning the battle.
Experts interviewed by Reuters argue that this extraordinary attempt is unlikely to survive a legal review.
President Trump has also indicated that the decree will be followed by a bill to reduce the scope of the existing law that has long protected large web platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
He said he ordered Attorney General William Barr to cooperate with states to enforce their own laws against what he describes as deceptive marketing practices by social media companies.
Twitter's decision whether or not to test messages is nothing more than political activism and is inappropriate, he argued.
At the center of the dispute, Twitter's decision to match the tweets in which the president equated the implementation of voting by mail with a massive fraud of this mention: "Get the facts on voting by mail", accompanied by 'an exclamation mark and a link to a page indicating that his accusations are without merit.
President Trump is leading a crusade against postal voting that some states intend to favor in the wake of the pandemic. However, he voted by mail during the Florida Republican primary held in March.
Regular user of Twitter, the president tweets several times a day, benefiting from an exceptional echo chamber with his 80 million subscribers.
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