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While Twitter targeted President Trump with fact-checks, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News scoffed at his understandably angry reaction on Wednesday. While they were amused by him fuming at his favorite social media platform, neither of them cared to report how Twitter’s in-house fact-checker was an anti-Trump activist who had leveled many false accusations against the President, including calling him an “actual Nazi.”
Declaring that the President was waging a “war on Twitter,” CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell quipped that “the President threatened Twitter, the social media site he has used more than 50,000 times, for fact-checking his posts.” It was a mocking line that was continued by CBS White House Ben Tracy.
“Meanwhile, the President is threatening Twitter on Twitter, saying he will ‘strongly regulate or close them down,’ after they fact-checked two of his tweets that falsely claimed mail-in voting leads to fraud, a position his Press Secretary has defended, despite having voted 12 times by mail herself,” he said.
Over on NBC, White House correspondent Peter Alexander fact-checked Trump’s venting.
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