Trump is going to war with social media companies like Facebook and Twitter. Here's everything that's happened so far.

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President Donald Trump has escalated a squabble with Twitter and other social media sites this week, leveraging threats to shut down or heavily regulate the platforms in response to perceived bias against him and other conservatives.

While Trump has been a critic of social media sites for years, his outrage reached a new pitch this week after Twitter decided to moderate his tweets for the first time on Tuesday. Since then, Trump has escalated calls to punish social media sites while simultaneously flouting Twitter's rules.

Meanwhile, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has used the conflict to draw a distinction between Twitter and Facebook this week, making it increasingly clear that Facebook will not take any action to fact-check Trump or moderate his posts that violate Facebook's rules.

Here's a breakdown of Trump's escalating feud with Twitter and what it could mean for the future of social media sites.

Twitter angered Trump Tuesday by fact-checking inaccuracies in his tweets for the first time ever.

Trump posted a series of tweets in recent weeks that falsely claimed Democrats are using mail-in voting to commit widespread voter fraud. 

Citing its policy against misinformation related to elections, Twitter made the unprecedented decision to fact-check those tweets, adding a disclaimer encouraging users to "Get the facts about mail-in ballots" with an exclamation point icon.

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Trump quickly reacted, claiming in a tweet that Twitter was "interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election" and  "completely stifling FREE SPEECH."

Trump and his allies ramped up their attacks on Twitter, targeting one employee who was previously critical of Trump.

The president widened his criticism Wednesday, claiming without evidence that social media platforms "silence conservative voices" and threatening to "strongly regulate, or close them down."

Trump and his top advisers also focused their outrage on Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of site integrity, after Roth's past tweets resurfaced that described Trump as a "racist tangerine" and decried "NAZIS" in the White House.

White House aide Kellyanne Conway held up Roth's past criticism of Trump on Wednesday as evidence that Twitter was biased against Trump, and Trump himself attacked Roth in a tweet Thursday, tagging Roth's Twitter handle.