President Trump signs social media executive order

President Trump signs an executive order to address his concerns about social media.

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[questelohim...]

You would think everyone would like this executive order, but the only reason they don't is because it's Trump.

[CanadianPrepper]

If people can get over the politics of this it's actually a good thing, you don't want a handful of organizations having the power to control information; even if it's information you disagree with. You should not want to be treated like a child and have your feeds censored because someone thinks you are too gullible and two stupid to discern fact from fiction. The onus should be on the education system to do a better job of teaching people how to make this judgment more accurately.

[markh]

I don't understand how anyone could think this a bad thing.

[whatsthewithdruskiwilli]

So can we sue the platforms if we’ve been censored 🤔

[spritfly]

Awesome! Shoutout to Cnbc for not opening with their opinion. Thanks for being objective.

[Jamal-eegx]

We have 100, 000 death some people do not have money in their pockets and food in there refrigerator. you talking about Twitter

[pjconey]

About time. I'd love to see the look on rain man's face now, i mean zuckerberg.

[devibezshow]

didn’t you attempt to fact check Obama that one time? 🤦🏿‍♂️

[vgs]

Twitter should have deleted his account years ago, the world would have been better for it.

[ralphvalkenhoff]

Monopoly is the issue. We don’t have a real alternative and this huge corporation is f#%king with the system by censorship. Thank you mr. President.

[stupormundi]

It was about time. Media platforms cannot discriminate. Now we can sue them.

[MsTdougherty]

They fact checked the biggest liar in the history of the world and he couldn’t take it.

[lovelife]

Why is not signing the bill for essential workers wtf this is crazy we been on the frontlines since all this started. Just wow

[shraviator]

well...he wasted no time acting on this...look at the difference between how he reacted to this vs reacting to the coronavirus

[chrisrandolph]

He says he does not want Americans to be hurt by social media...isn’t there something else that has been hurting Americans for over 3 months?

[moonblast]

100, 000 people dead and he’s worried about getting fact checked by twitter. JSMDH.

[lindamiles]

Oh, dear God!!! WHO WILL LEAD THE LEADERS!?!?!? In all my 62 years, NEVER have I seen such a mess!With all we have to contend with right now, ..Pandemic, terrorism, hatred, hunger...and on and on...AND THIS IS WHAT HE IS FREAKING OUT ABOUT!?!??!Someone, somewhere, STEP UP and help us !!!

[Fuzzybeanerizer]

"We'll see what happens..."
Where have I heard that before?

[andymore]

Political ads and politicians should be banned from social media. For security purposes.

[EZJames]

Amongst a global pandemic. Over 100, 000 people have died in America because of it! People are dying every single day! We are short-staffed, under equip, struggling for help in every state. And the focus of the President of the United States is being fact-checked on Twitter about something he said that has absolutely nothing to do with the virus. Thank you, Mr. President, for putting yourself 1st, yet again.