Sen. Ron Wyden called President Trump’s executive order targeting social media platforms a “plainly illegal” attempt to push “unfiltered lies.”
On Thursday, a draft of Trump’s executive order was released, calling for the Federal Communications Commission to review social media companies and the protections they are granted under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which lets them be considered platforms, rather than publishers, to protect them from liability. Wyden, who co-authored the law targeted in Trump’s executive order, said the president did not have the authority to take such action.
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