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Trump executive order: President seeks review of law covering social media companies – Source CNET Tech

President Donald Trump is pushing back against social media companies after his tweets were fact-checked.


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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that targeted social media companies, a move he telegraphed after Twitter fact-checked the president’s tweets on mail-in ballots for containing “potentially misleading misinformation.”

The executive order doesn’t change how Twitter, Facebook or other social media companies operate. Rather, it calls on the government to review federal law that protects online companies from liability for content posted by users, according to a draft of the order. Section…

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