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Trump Order Undermines Social Media


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President Trump’s love/hate relationship with Twitter took another turn last week.  On May 21, Twitter fact-checked two of Trump’s tweets, including one where the President claimed vote-by-mail would result in widespread voter fraud.  Twitter marked the tweet as “misleading.”  After claiming he would shut down the social media outlet, two days later, Trump had signed an executive order that seeks to upend key provisions of the Communications Decency Act that allow many internet and social media platforms to operate.  Here to help us wrap our heads around this latest unilateral action by President Trump is Anuj Desai, an expert on internet law and free speech at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
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