Twitter calls out US President Donald Trump, he responds

UNITED STATES US President Donald Trump yesterday hit back at Twitter for tagging two of his tweets with a factchecking warning label. He accused the micro-blogging website of “interfering” in the US election and “completely stifling” free speech. “Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post .... ,” Trump tweeted on tuesday. “Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!” he said in another tweet.

Twitter had on tuesday for the first time prompted readers to check the facts in tweets sent by Trump, warning that his claims about mail-in ballots were false and had been debunked by fact checkers. Trump, who has more than 80 million followers on Twitter, claimed in tweets earlier in the day that mail-in ballots would be “substantially fraudulent” and result in a “rigged election.” He also singled out the governor of California over the issue, although the state is not the only one to use mail-in ballots.

(Hindustan Times)

UNITED STATES The United States, recently attacking China over the national security legislation for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), has never stopped its own legislation on national security. It’s worth noticing that the world’s sole superpower itself has over the decades tried its best to enforce the rules of law on what the government refers to security concerns. The US National Security Act of 1947, which took effect on Sept. 18, 1947, provides a legal basis for the US government to craft foreign policy and establish military organizations, and has been a constant source of strengthening America’s national security over the years. The National Security

Council (NSC) is among the institutions that presidents use to handle long-term problems and more immediate national security crises. The NSC includes the president, vice president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In recent decades, the United States has made every effort to safeguard national security and ensure the fundamental basis for their stability and development, taking a series of steps to strengthen national security through legislation and law enforcement. To achieve the act’s stated goal of providing a comprehensive program for future national security, the former Department of War and the Navy Department

merged into the Department of Defense, which also includes the Departments of the Army and Air Force. As it also serves to coordinate national security with the intelligence community and its many capabilities, the legislation created the CIA, the government’s primary civilian intelligence-gathering organization, and established the position of director of central intelligence (DCI). The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 established the director of national intelligence (DNI), a US government cabinetlevel official, to replace the DCI as head of the 17-member US Intelligence Community.

(Xinhua)