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New push to kill Section 230 protections for Twitter, Facebook, and Big Tech

By Paul Bedard
Published January 11, 2021 6:12pm ET
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New push to kill Section 230 protections for Twitter, Facebook, and Big Tech
On Friday, Twitter permanently suspended President Trump from its platform, citing "risk of further incitement of violence."

That didn’t take long.

Just a week into the new Congress and days after social media erased President Trump’s accounts, a key lawmaker today moved to end the immunity Big Tech firms, including Twitter and Facebook, receive under Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.

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