He can’t take any interference with his lies. Facebook has caved into him. Twitter flags two out of thousands of false tweets and he goes ballistic.
A new executive order by President Trump to crack down on social media bias is wrong in so many ways, writes The Times Editorial Board. "We can't even begin to count them." (via @latimesopinion) https://t.co/qQtUcvQIaB
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 28, 2020
This, from the executive order, completely unmasks what a laughable exercise in bad faith this whole thing really is. It's all about bullying social media companies into treating Trump's lies as truths, and truths about Trump's bottomless corruption as lies: pic.twitter.com/xQVJ580um2
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 28, 2020
This is in the text of Trump's executive order targeting social media companies pic.twitter.com/2gUxvrMapn
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) May 28, 2020
Think of all the time that would free up for golf. https://t.co/5ThB4wHJh5
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 28, 2020
“Donald Trump is so committed to preventing Americans from voting that he spent weeks lying about vote by mail, and now he is trying to twist Section 230 and the First Amendment to force Twitter to spread these lies." –@RonWyden https://t.co/NmZGWmUSq9
— Swing Left (@swingleft) May 28, 2020
This presidential meltdown brought to you by the hurt feelings of the man with the nuclear codes. https://t.co/zNhjSvFQZH
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 28, 2020
Here, buried in the Executive Order is the reason @realDonaldTrump flipped his wig: He’s upset Twitter fact checked him. It is always about him. pic.twitter.com/PZZ5IiKX1e
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 28, 2020
Railing against alleged ‘bias’ of social media companies after Twitter fact-checked him, President Trump signs new executive order @kaitlancollins reports pic.twitter.com/l5jD3Ug5u6
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) May 28, 2020
If you had to guess which company fact-checked Trump and which criticized that decision and the only information you had was that Trump's campaign doesn't spend money on Twitter and it spends tens of millions on Facebook, what would you guess?
— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 28, 2020
Take a look down Trump's twitter feed and then tell me that his account doesn't violate Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
— Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) May 28, 2020
It's all ad baculum threats, tu quoque (appeals to hypocrisy), and conspiracy. Trump's twitter is an attack on the American public sphere.
Lol – whatever hack lawyer approved Trump's order failed to realize it forces more not less scrutiny of content by turning social media into publishers. No publisher would stand behind Trump's lies & ravings unless they wanted to commit financial suicide
— Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu) May 28, 2020
https://t.co/AilL0dNcIj
Even Trump’s resident professionally obtuse legal defender couldn’t muster more than this sad little explanation. pic.twitter.com/8kRYKtgJ2c
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) May 28, 2020
Sad! 