President Trump has signed an executive order that, in a long-shot legal bid, seeks to curtail the power of large social media platforms by reinterpreting a critical 1996 law that shields websites and tech companies from lawsuits
Washington President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting social media companies on Thursday, days after Twitter called two of his tweets"potentially misleading."
Speaking from the Oval Office ahead of signing the order, Trump said the move was to"defend free speech from one of the gravest dangers it has faced in American history.""A small handful of social media monopolies controls a vast portion of all public and private communications in the United States," he claimed.
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