Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter and Facebook: draft

Re:Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter... by michaelt on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:35AM (#23335284)

You think Trump is demanding that Twitter appoint an editor to vet (and maybe fact check) all his tweets before publishing them, like a newspaper editor would?

I think that is not what Trump is asking for.

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Re:Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter... by deathgrips on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:37AM (#23335311)

Twitter already arbitrarily approves, edits, and removes content. It seems like he wants the FCC to treat them like a publisher.

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Re:Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter... by quantummkv on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:49AM (#23335418)

> Twitter already arbitrarily approves, edits, and removes content.

By doing this Twitter is behaving as a publisher. Then why should Twitter not be treated like one?

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Re:Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter... by ljm on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:48AM (#23335415)

I sincerely doubt he'd be drafting this order if, say, Joe Biden's tweets were the ones getting fact-check labels added to them. I can see it being a step towards Trump/Republicans using such an order to suppress criticism though; let's say... a Democrat campaign ad that attacks Trump or calls him out.

Either way, the only intention behind this drafted order is entirely self-serving. It's a complete knee-jerk reaction.

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