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Have Truth Social or other platforms removed, edited, or restricted any of Trump's posts about age and consent, and why?
Executive summary
Available reporting in the provided sources shows no credible evidence that Truth Social or other platforms have removed, edited, or otherwise restricted posts by Donald Trump specifically about lowering the age of consent to 14; Snopes’ reviews found no announcements on Trump’s Truth Social account and no credible media confirmation of a plan to lower age-of-consent or marriage ages to 14 [1] [2]. Separately, Trump did post on Truth Social urging D.C. to prosecute some teenagers as adults “starting at age 14,” a call that was reported but not described in these sources as having been removed or edited by platforms [3].
1. What the fact-checkers checked — and what they found
Snopes investigated circulating rumors in August 2025 that President Trump and Republicans were pursuing federal action to lower the age of consent or marriage to 14 and reported that searches of major search engines and a review of Trump’s Truth Social posts turned up no credible confirmations or announcements about such a policy proposal on his platform [1] [2]. Those Snopes pieces directly state they found no posts on Truth Social announcing a plan to lower age-of-consent or marriage ages to 14 [1] [2].
2. What Trump actually posted that is relevant
Reporting by The Hill documents a different, specific public post: Trump shared a Truth Social message urging the District of Columbia to change its laws so teenagers “starting at age 14” could be prosecuted as adults and face lengthy prison sentences; that report quotes the Truth Social language and notes the post included a graphic image and a long message about violent crime in D.C. [3]. The Hill story treats that as an active True Social post rather than as one that had been removed or restricted [3].
3. Did platforms remove or restrict posts? — What the sources say (and don’t say)
The supplied sources do not report that Truth Social, X, Facebook, or other platforms removed or edited Trump posts on the age-of-consent rumor or on his call to prosecute 14‑year‑olds as adults. Snopes explicitly says it reviewed Trump’s Truth Social posts and found no announcement about lowering age-of-consent or marriage ages [1] [2], which is a statement about absence of that claim on Truth Social rather than evidence of deletion. The Hill piece relays Trump’s Truth Social content as published; it does not state the post was taken down or altered [3]. Therefore, available sources do not mention platform removals or edits in this context [1] [2] [3].
4. How reporting distinguishes different claims and why that matters
Two distinct issues are often conflated in online chatter: (A) an alleged federal push to lower age-of-consent or marriage ages to 14 (a major policy change), and (B) Trump’s expressed desire for D.C. to prosecute some 14‑year‑olds as adults for violent crimes. Snopes focuses on refuting the broader rumor that Trump announced plans to lower age-of-consent or marriage ages and found no supporting posts or coverage [1] [2]. The Hill documents the narrower, verifiable Truth Social post about prosecuting teens as adults [3]. Conflating these two produces misleading impressions about what Trump has said and what platforms might have done.
5. Alternative perspectives and implicit agendas in the reporting
Snopes frames its pieces as fact-checks aimed at debunking a viral rumor; that mission can lead it to emphasize lack of corroboration in mainstream reporting and on candidate platforms [1] [2]. The Hill’s reporting focuses on the content of Trump’s public messaging about law-and-order and youth crime in D.C., presenting the president’s language without suggesting platform moderation occurred [3]. Readers should note those differing purposes: Snopes seeks to verify or debunk specific claims circulating online, while The Hill reports on contemporaneous statements and policy demands.
6. Limitations and what remains unanswered
None of the provided sources documents any internal moderation actions (removal, editing, demotion, or labeling) by Truth Social or other platforms related to Trump’s posts on age or consent; therefore, assertions that platforms restricted such posts are not supported in the supplied reporting [1] [2] [3]. Available sources do not mention whether private takedown requests, content-policy disputes, or subsequent deletions occurred beyond the reviewed material [1] [2] [3]. If you want a definitive audit of platform moderation actions, those require platform records or follow-up reporting not present in the current set of sources.
If you’d like, I can (a) search for direct statements from Truth Social or platform transparency reports, (b) expand the search to broader fact‑checks and platform-safety reporting, or (c) compile a timeline of Trump’s Truth Social posts about D.C. crime and related coverage. Which would you prefer?