The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology is taking aim at US President Donald Trump’s social media executive order. The CDT filed a lawsuit…
The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology is taking aim at US President Donald Trump’s social media executive order. The CDT filed a lawsuit against the president on Tuesday, alleging that the order violates the First Amendment.
“The order is plainly retaliatory: it attacks a private company, Twitter, for exercising its First Amendment right to comment on the President’s statements,” the lawsuit says. “More fundamentally, the order seeks to curtail and chill the constitutionally protected speech of all online platforms and individuals by demonstrating the willingness to use government authority to retaliate against those who criticize the government.”
Last week, Trump tweeted that mail-in ballots for the November election would be “substantially fraudulent,” prompting Twitter to apply a fact-checking label to the comments, saying they contained “potentially misleading information” and providing a link so users could learn more.
