Trump to sign social media executive order, after lashing out at Twitter
Always an aggrieved victim, isn't he.
Donald Trump got super mad when Twitter added a little fact-checking note on a couple of his bogus 'voter fraud' disinformation tweets.
Next, Trump threatened tthreatened to shut down Twitter, one of the platforms he falsely accuses of stifling conservative voices.
Now, he is said to be planning to sign some kind of social media executive order to express his outrage.
.@realDonaldTrump will sign an executive order shortly about social media and internet companies, @PressSec tells reporters on Air Force One. The president has been very critical of @Twitter in the last 24 hours.
- Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) May 27, 2020
White House says Trump will sign an executive order "pertaining to social media" tomorrow, but provides no details on what it might say or do.
- Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) May 27, 2020
From Reuters:
The officials, who spoke to reporters traveling with Trump to Washington from Florida aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, gave no further details.
Before leaving for Florida earlier in the day to observe a space launch that was postponed because of bad weather, Trump again accused Twitter Inc and other social media of bias without offering evidence.
It was unclear how Trump could follow through on the threat of shutting down social media companies.
(...) Separately, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington on Wednesday upheld the dismissal of a suit brought by a conservative group and right-wing YouTube personality against Google, Facebook, Twitter and Apple alleging they conspired to suppress conservative political views.
Read more at Reuters:
Trump to sign executive order on social media on Thursday: White House
[reuters.com, Jeff Mason, Nandita Bose]
Air Force One has landed at @Andrews_JBA. @PressSec told reporters aboard that Pres Trump will be signing an Executive Order on social media. Follows his irritation with Twitter for doing fact check on his vote-by-mail tweets. pic.twitter.com/qwcmSV86K4
- Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 27, 2020
News via pooler @peterbakernyt: "Kayleigh McEnany came back just before landing to say that POTUS is signing an executive order today pertaining to social media" but had no details on what it would do."
- Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) May 27, 2020
Just minutes later, WH pool was told that the social media executive order will actually be signed tomorrow not tonight. But still few details on what is in the EO.
- Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) May 27, 2020