Trump executive order to punish social-media platforms is largely toothless, legal experts say

Trump's executive order against social-media companies: what legal experts say

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order ostensibly to prevent online censorship, a broad government review of private companies’ activities with potentially grave consequences for social-media companies.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, however, told CNBC and Fox News’s “The Daily Briefing” that he “believes strongly that Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online.” See also: ‘Totally absurd and legally illiterate’ — Harvard law prof on Trump’s charge Twitter is stifling free speech

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