Just in: President Trump signed an executive order Thursday targeting social media companies such as Twitter, accusing them of having “unchecked power”
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday targeting social media companies such as Twitter,with the technology platforms he uses as a political bullhorn in an election year.
The sparring with social media companies is another dividing line in the 2020 election, as conservatives complain that their voices are not heard and liberals demand greater efforts to flag deliberate falsehoods and disinformation — especially from the president. “That’s the irony of all this,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor who studies technology and democracy. “The platforms will be much more aggressive in their automated filtering to go after content that could raise their legal liability.”Legal experts are skeptical that Trump’s order would pass judicial scrutiny given the wide berth Congress has given social media companies to police their own platforms.
The plan could provide another outlet for growing right-wing resentment toward social media companies, whom they accuse of censoring or downplaying conservative political messages.
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