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Trump Signs Executive Order To Weaken Social Media Companies President Trump signs an executive order aimed at limiting the broad legal protections enjoyed by social media companies days after Twitter fact-checked two of his tweets.

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at limiting the broad legal protections enjoyed by social media companies, two days after he tore into Twitter for fact-checking two of his tweets.

The order argues, in essence, that if the social media companies restrict certain voices on their platforms, the companies should be stripped of their legal immunity, opening the doors to a wave of lawsuits over content seen as defamatory.

The order directs the Federal Communications Commission to start a rule-making process to clarify when social media companies should keep protections under the law.

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One thought on “Trump Signs Executive Order To Weaken Social Media Companies”
  1. This means we can sue trump for all his defamatory bullshit he posts several times a day.

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