President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that takes aim at social media companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google, in an attempt to…
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that takes aim at social media companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google, in an attempt to limit protections shielding these companies from liability over content posted to their platforms.
The final text isn’t substantively different to the draft that was previously circulating, but there are some interesting tweaks to the wording and the companies that Trump explicitly calls out.
As expected, Twitter is enemy number one of the order, after the company began adding fact-check labels to Trump’s tweets earlier this week. Talk of an executive order started when Twitter fact-checked two of Trump’s tweets pushing conspiracies about voting by mail. Trump then accused Twitter of « interfering » in the 2020 election.
« Twitter now selectively decides to place a warning label on certain tweets in a manner that clearly reflects political bias, » reads the final copy of the executive order.
