After years of criticism that the platform has allowed President Donald Trump to push false and misleading information, Twitter, for the first time on Tuesday, labeled one of the President’s tweets with a fact-check. The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou tells host Marco Werman that the fact-check is one of several actions the social media platform has taken against world leaders in recent weeks.
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