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2020-05-28T16:01:05.368Z


| United StatesAfter the clash with Twitter, Trump is expected to sign a presidential order aimed at balancing content on social media platforms • The draft order has not yet been finalized President Trump Photo:  IP US President Donald Trump exacerbates social media struggle: Today, the US leader is expected to sign a presidential decree "on social networks." Yesterday, Trump declared that his administrat...


After the clash with Twitter, Trump is expected to sign a presidential order aimed at balancing content on social media platforms • The draft order has not yet been finalized

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US President Donald Trump exacerbates social media struggle: Today, the US leader is expected to sign a presidential decree "on social networks."

Yesterday, Trump declared that his administration would consider "shutting down social networks" on the grounds that they were "silencing conservative voices." This claim follows a Twitter action that first interfered with the U.S. president's tweet, adding a comment below his tweet stating that the information contained in it could be misleading.

At this point, it is not yet clear what the contents of the order will be, but the Washington Post reported that the guidance could help federal agencies take punitive action against networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google if they did not balance the content posted on their platforms.

According to a report in Business Insider, two sources familiar with the order in question will impose on the US Commerce Department to ask the Federal Communications Commission to look at reducing the scope of Article 230, the 1996 Decree of the Communications Fairness Act that protects Internet companies from legal liability for published content In them. 

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This week, it was reported that Twitter marked two tweets from President Trump dealing with the postal vote, which he claimed contained false or misleading information. "Know all the facts about voting in the mail," was written below the president's tweet along with a link to a page that provided a series of reliable sources on the issue of mail voting in the United States.

The president furiously responded, tweeting: "Twitter is now meddling in the presidential election. They say my postal vote statements, which lead to mass spoofing and fraud, are incorrect, based on a fact-check of CNN's fake news and the Washington Post." The president also added: "Twitter completely suffocates the right to speak, and I, as president, will not let that happen."

Yesterday, Trump tweeted: "Many Republicans feel that social media platforms completely silence conservative voices. We will work to regulate their activities or even shut them down before completely silencing them."

Big Tech is doing everything in their considerable power to CENSOR in advance of the 2020 Election. If that happens, we no longer have our freedom. I will never let that happen! They tried hard in 2016, and lost. Now they are going absolutely CRAZY. Stay Tuned !!!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2020

Today, the US president claimed in another tweet that social networks are doing everything they can to censor content for the 2020 election. "If that happens, we no longer have our freedom," Trump wrote in a tweet. "I'll never let that happen."

Source: israelhayom

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