Trump Singles Out Twitter Employee for Fact-Checking Tweets

  • President says platform will ‘taint’ election with fact-checks
  • Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he is responsible for policy
A Twitter free speech tweet by President Trump.Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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President Donald Trump called out a single Twitter employee Thursday in a tweet complaining that the platform’s decision to fact check his tweets on mail balloting could “taint” the U.S. election.