US President Donald Trump shared a satirical article Friday about Twitter shutting down to slow the spread of negative news on his election rival Joe Biden, apparently unaware that it was a joke.
Wow, this has never been done in history. This includes his really bad interview last night. Why is Twitter doing this. Bringing more attention to Sleepy Joe & Big TThe story Mr Trump shared was from the Babylon Bee, a satirical news site with the motto"Fake news you can trust" clearly visible on its Twitter page.blocking links to a New York Post articleThe social media giants said they had stopped linking to the article because the provenance of the information was questionable.
Mr Trump's propensity for sharing wild, unfounded accusations has not been diminished by his political career, which was forged in the cauldron of the racist"birtherism" conspiracy theory alleging that his predecessor Barack Obama was not born in the US.
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