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Trump vs. Twitter: What 'big action' does president plan for social media networks?

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No tweet alert this time. Word came from the president’s spokeswoman herself directly to reporters traveling on Air Force One with President Trump: The president…
No tweet alert this time. Word came from the president’s spokeswoman herself directly to reporters traveling on Air Force One with President Trump: The president plans to sign an executive order on social media in the morning.
This comes a day after the president’s tweets decrying mail-in ballots as fertile for fraud had a fact-check label appended.
Earlier on Wednesday, the president had promised “big action” in response, asserting that social media platforms “totally silence conservatives voices,” threatening to “strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.”
So what could Thursday’s action actually be? Social media are public companies and not typically subject to executive orders.
“Presidents can do anything,” says Karen North, a professor of social media at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication.

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