“McEnany told reporters aboard Air Force One that the order is ‘pertaining to social media’ but shared no additional details on what it will do,” Politico reported. “But the announcement revived fears within the online industry that the Trump administration will target a 24-year-old statute that protects the companies from lawsuits — an avenue that a growing number of Republican lawmakers have advocated in their bias allegations about Silicon Valley.”
Shortly after news broke that Trump would sign an executive order, the president tweeted: “Big Tech is doing everything in their very considerable power to CENSOR in advance of the 2020 Election. If that happens, we no longer have our freedom. I will never let it happen! They tried hard in 2016, and lost. Now they are going absolutely CRAZY. Stay Tuned!!!”
Big Tech is doing everything in their very considerable power to CENSOR in advance of the 2020 Election. If that happens, we no longer have our freedom. I will never let it happen! They tried hard in 2016, and lost. Now they are going absolutely CRAZY. Stay Tuned!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2020
The news comes after Twitter labeled a tweet from Trump yesterday with a fact-check after Trump warned that mail-in voting was susceptible to voter fraud. Shortly after Twitter applied a fact-check label to Trump’s tweet, the Department of Justice charged a man in West Virginia for allegedly altering mail-in ballots.
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