“Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of the truth,” Zuckerberg told Fox News.

“We have a different policy than Twitter on this,” he said. “Private companies probably shouldn’t, especially these platform companies, shouldn’t be able to.”

However, Facebook warns users who like misinformation about the coronavirus, and in March deleted a Trump campaign ad that had been dubbed the U.S. census. United States

Zuckerberg also said that Trump should not retaliate against social media companies.

“In general, I think that a government that chooses to censor a platform because it is concerned about censorship does not seem to me to be exactly the right reflection,” he said.

On Wednesday evening, the White House said Trump would sign a decree on social media companies on Thursday. It was not clear what the order would entail. Earlier today, Trump threatened to “vigorously regulate” or shut down social media companies trying to “silence conservative voices.”

Harvard Professor and constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe tweeted Tuesday that Trump’s threats were “Totally absurd and legally illiterate” saying that Twitter policy is “absolutely protected by the First Amendment as an expression of opinion”.

On Tuesday, Twitter added a fact-checking warning label to two of Trump’s tweets, in which he made false and unsubstantiated statements about voting by mail.

“These tweets contain potentially misleading information about the voting process and have been tagged to provide additional context around email ballots,” a Twitter spokesperson said on Tuesday. “This decision is in line with the approach we shared earlier this month.”

Twitter established rules in early May for disputed or misleading tweets, stating that they will be assessed on a case-by-case basis and will only be deleted if they are harmful.

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and other social media sites have come under heavy criticism in recent years for their flaws in monitoring misinformation on their platforms.