Being presidential election at the door steps,US President Donald Trump turns against social media giant, Twitter. The incumbent president condemned Twitter citing its unprecedented shuts down of entire network to slow spread of negative news against his rival, Democratic party's presidential candidate Joe Biden.
"Why is Twitter doing this, bringing more attention to sleepy joe & Big T," Trump tweeted.
The remarks by Trump appears amid the claims that social networks are biased against conservatives. Trump had expressed his anger, opposing bizarre handling of Twitter to contain spreading of New York Times article relating Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
Earlier, Trump had tweeted that it is terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of smoking gun emails.
Frictions between Twitter and Trump became severe on Wednesday, when the latter prevented people from posting links to a story by New York Times, cautioning it contained potentially unsafe content.
Twitter claimed that its move was due to the disclosing of private informations and material obtained through hacking- BBC reported on Thursday.
The article shared by New York Times was revolving around an controversial email on April 2015, in which an Ukraine based energy company greeted Hunter Biden for inviting their advisor to meet Joe – Biden in Washington. Hunter Biden had connections with this company.
Facebook had also put restriction in news feed to minimize the articles' dissemination.