President Donald Trump will unveil an executive order Thursday targeting social media giants after Twitter added a fact-check warning to his tweets.
President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a press briefing with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on April 18, 2020, in Washington, D.C. Trump is facing scrutiny over a series of tweets calling for state residents to 'liberate' themselves from strict 'stay-at-home' orders.
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order related to social media Thursday after Twitter—his favored mode of direct communication to his supporters—attached a fact-check disclaimer to his tweets about mail-in voting this week. What the order will say is not yet clear. However, two of Trump's close GOP allies in Congress signaled earlier Wednesday a willingness to strip the social media giant of the special speech liability immunity it receives because of the fact-checking flap. Trump's move, in the end, is widely expected to be a strong-arming of the platform into not flagging his tweets. Trump declined to answer reporters' questions about his plans after he returned to the White House following a trip to Florida on Wednesday. However, he expressed his frustration—on Twitter no less—about the messaging platform. "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen," Trump tweeted Wednesday."Twitter has now shown that everything we have been saying about them is correct. Big action to follow!" One of Trump's supporters, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday questioning the platform's"unprecedented decision to single out the President for disfavor, based on his political speech." "Twitter's 'fact check' raises serious questions about whether Twitter targeted the president for political reasons," Hawley wrote in the letter.'s query whether he had been in touch with the president ahead of Trump's order. Twitter and similar social media platforms receive a special carve-out from liability that traditional publishers hold under the Communications Decency Act because they are considered passive distributors of third-party content.," Hawley wrote in his letter to Dorsey."Your company is treated very differently from publishers, as you know."
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