Washington
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that could scrap or weaken the law protecting social media companies after Twitter flagged one of his tweets warning the readers to fact-check the claims.
The order calls on government regulators to evaluate if online platforms should be eligible for liability protection for content posted by their millions of users. If enforced, the action would upend decades of precedent and treat internet platforms as “publishers” potentially liable for user-generated content.
Trump told reporters at the White House he acted because big tech firms “have had unchecked power to censor, restrict, edit, shape, hide, alter any form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences.”“We can’t let this continue to happen,” Trump said.–AP
