President Trump and his supporters really, really hate Big Tech. In particular, their ire is targeted toward social media companies who they, sometimes fairly, perceive as biased and censorious.
The president just signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to reinterpret Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the liability-shielding provision that enables social media’s existence. Trump has gone even further in a series of recent tweets, explicitly calling to outright revoke Section 230 protections:
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