President Donald Trump said he signed an executive order to “defend free speech” from powerful social-media companies — an action he took two days after Twitter applied fact-check…
According to draft text of the executive order, it would curb protections afforded to internet companies under Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The law, as it stands, lets companies like, YouTube and Twitter moderate content on their services as they see fit, while protecting them from lawsuits over content shared on them.
“We’re here today to defend free speech from one of the gravest dangers it has faced in American history, frankly,” Trump said in announcing the executive order, according to video released by the White House.
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