Experts say Trump's order aimed at Twitter, other tech giants could prove toothless, face legal challenge

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The executive order Pres. Donald Trump is expected to sign targeting Twitter and other the social media giants could prove toothless and face legal challenge, experts say.

The president previously doubted the U.S. would hit the grim milestone coronavirus death toll and has recently focused on a new feud with Twitter over false claims about mail-in voting.was expected to sign targeting Twitter and other the social media giants could prove toothless and face legal challenge, experts said Thursday.

President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during an event on protecting seniors with diabetes in the Rose Garden White House in Washington, May 26, 2020.

While the draft of the order said the review of Section 230 should start without Congress, the American Civil Liberties Union said Congress was the only body with the power to reinterpret the law. While Twitter “said Trump did not violate its rules, it still intervened between him and his followers to add its own view of the truth on a political controversy," Turley said.

 

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Hush little baby- dont say a word

TheView Idiot!!!!

You media jokers need to be taught a tough lesson. In India Twitter shadow bans Bjp supporters and members all the time

Trump, I wish Twitter would close/block your account.

Still trying to hide the truth!

Yeah, there's quite a bit of mocking about realDonaldTrump on twitter lol

What’s so wrong with fact checking

What a waste of time, while people are dying in US, he is just concerned about himself, how can we continue with this unqualified toddler?

He’s an illegitimate president. I’m so sick and tired of his insanity.

🚨NARCISSIST🚨 Trump will always have to prove he's right. It's part of the psychological disorder. This can be a dangerous disease for a President to have. Dictators and Authoritarians have this in common. Trump is trying to make legal policy over this!

Can't wait until he's out of office. The sooner the better

realDonaldTrump I SUPPORT your decision sir.

Did you mean Brainless Executive Order coming from our less than amazing President Trump

Everyday he gets weirder looking...tf is he doing to his face?

Shatter the Shield

trump stay of twitter then they cant say or print anything

... Y así el imperio empieza a resquebrajarse de a poco...

Fact Check?

Fact Check?

If I were the CEO OF TWITTER make a compliance to all leaders of each nation each states etc .. not to talk about politics. It should be stop. Twitter for leisure and fun and it should be a warm feeling. Not bec someone don’t like to read an issue IT WOULD BE SHUT THE TWITTER

We really doing what we are doing bec It’s twitter and it has to be voice out. It’s a Freedom of speech . To those who don’t want to read inappropriately they should Quit on Twitter

realDonaldTrump focus on bigger issues. I swear this guy is the worst. FactCheckTrump NotMyPresident

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Because people talking about Trump failure. Trump is a Worst President ever,if Obama had President he never play with USA citizens life.

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Instead of American becoming great again, American suffer difficulties, great. Targeting the foreign company Huawei should be enough for his ball. Nothing is wrong with Twitter which upholds the truth, American is not a liar communist country.

He's been such a 'BIGMAN' for sometime, how's he feel now? America is DONE with DONALD!

So you throw a tantrum like the big baby, instead of working to get this virus under control😒😒😒 POTUS

Hay jack ass it's for you

Do not take away my freedom of speech.

Did someone censur that airbag and he threw a tantrum over it?

Do not want to be criticized through social media just withdraw from the president

TheView Your childish mind and behavior are showing. Oh, it highlights how “unfit” you are for the office. Go away, preferably in handcuffs

Nice eye tan....

DESPERATE TO GETATTENTION BUT NOT ANY MORE... NO MORE TRUMP!!

Minneapolis is on fire and he is having a temper tantrum.

Good move. twitter has been crossing lines.

GMA Screw his executive order!!!! He’s just a baby crying out because he can’t get his way!

So he wrote an executive order to specifically allow him to lie I mean...that's what it comes down to, right?

Amazing how many wussies are on this thread giving ignorant replies then immediately blocking people from engaging in a debate.

Of course it’s going to be useless, he is used to firing anyone who doesn’t agree 100% with him

I’m sweating over puzzles. Meanwhile trump has the time to censor social media... and not reassure the nation that we’re going to make it through this...

realDonaldTrump i wipe the bucket with your executive order

TheView I can’t breathe “Don’t boo go vote’, justice for all !! no violence ✊🇺🇸

He’s such joke! He should have been fact checked a long time ago! I say way to Twitter! Keep up the good work!

All I hear is blah blah blah Retribution getting even.

laughable

Such an angry man.

KeithOlbermann This man needs to be gone.

TheView Waaaaa😭, Twitter won't let me make bullshit statements full of lies anymore without fact checking me. BUT I'M THE PRESIDENT! Waaaaaaaa 😭😭😭😭😭

he's a clown

🤡Heil Hitler

GMA Can we just call realDonaldTrump Karen? It really fits.

This executive order is like Trump in bed. Nothing happens. Twitter is safe. Twitter is sex to Trump. They need each other.

GMA Such a paper tiger. Big bully gets called out and then runs away crying. Story of his life. ridiculous

Good luck with that.

Nazi, fascist realDonaldTrump !!

Like the plans to build a wall for which 'MASKICO' won't pay?

About time!

President Karen! smfh

TheView I call bullsh*t on this guy. He not going very far with this mess.

Trump should just sign an Executive Order that demands everyone believe everything he says.

He doesn’t even understand what he signing. His tweets, no matter how ridiculous, have not been censored. He fears those who call him out on the facts. He can simply stop using Twitter. The first ammendment does not apply to social media.

GMA

This will likely backfire on Trump. It would behoove all if Twitter, Facebook and all social media companies just stop allowing political comments. Social media companies have that authority when you first clicked on the “accept” or “agree” button to participate.

TheView Thank you mr.president.. all social media is lies

KeithOlbermann

This career criminal con-man is a threat to our Constitution every damn day. 25thAmendmentNow TrumpMeltdown FactsMatter FactCheckTrump

realDonaldTrump Twitter you little man are the cause of twitters fact checking... you are just afraid of being corrected by every tweet you send!

but: Dictators are in N Kore Venezuela iran & nicaragua...

Maybe, just maybe if he succeed in shutting down Twitter, which i don't think it's possible though. He might then just have time to do his presidential work efficiently even that too, i doubt cos his ineptitude is legendary.

I guess the balls in Twitters court....stop censoring or face loosing liability protections....🤷‍♀️

Facts are Facts! Deal with it!

How idiotic. Hope his account gets suspended for violating twitter rules. After all, he's just another user governed by the twitter rules and users policy.

he is right! twitter does fact check to President Trump and censors conservatives, but does not do so with the Socialist Democrats

He lies so much & hangs around all these dictators. That he's appalled at getting his lies friends Putin,bin salman,jung ill or ill jung get to say what they want & nobody fact checks them. realDonaldTrump

You big baby!! Hahahahaha

Such thin skin from someone who has no substance or morals when it comes to other people.

Yet another of his distraction techniques, rants and acts of ignorance.

TheView Lol

TheView He is the worst President in the world. Our country is in great pain

Why didn't he act this swiftly when he learned of the coronavirus Trump is just a self serving jerk and failure of a president.

Lol correct me if I’m wrong (😉) but isn’t fact checking still neutral? As long as you point out the flaws in logic of anyone who has a platform that they can use to spread misinformation then that’s not censorship. Signing an executive order to stop fact checks is censorship

Just another diversion.

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Find some other platform to lie on

thus shooting himself in the foot

time to spread lies to all Americans

He’s a compulsive liar, that’s why he gets fact checked. The American people need the truth.He’s going to use his power as president to try and do everything and anything to save his ass for this coming election.

Why because he couldn’t trash talk and had to follow political rules, right punishing Twitter cause he can’t keep hurting people with his horrible attitude and posts

GMA You know POTUS if you don’t like Twitter you don’t have to use it... it’s not mandatory that you are on that social media site. You are an emperor with no clothes.

GOOD FOR TWITTER!!!!! Trump is just a blowhard!!!!

Nice spray tan. All that money and can't even present himself as anything less than a clown? Placing a link to furrher information is not censorship or editing. Your tweet remains, intact, for all to read. It is not removed or altered. Point two will see this tank in court.

TheView What a putz! Nothing bothered him about Twitter until they put a 'fact check' on his deceptive lies about mail-in ballots. Hopefully the reign of this 'would be dictator' will be over soon!

The toothless tool.he dont pay for twitter either Run the country and stay off Twitter

Why is Trump so fake concerned about mail in ballots, when he has shown no regard for anything else? VoteByMail VoteByMail2020 vote Election2020 coronavirus COVID19 GunReform climatechange TrumpMeltdown TrumpLiedPeopleDied TrumpDeathToll102K

Is this relevant? 18 U.S. Code § 1001.Statements or entries generally.

👶 🍼 Oh did someone besides the news actually call him out on fake and misleading information? It’s about time!

What’s with his extra orange face....does he put that stuff on with a trowel?

He's hard at work I see

tyese_givens Quick tell that lady put up some more of her plandemic documentaries...she can sue if they take them down

TheView THIS is how he spends his time? 101,000 people dead & he works on social media? Please, someone do their job in that WH!! Take his phone away, change the password on the WiFi until we all have access to Covid testing!! Something!!!!

realDonaldTrump How about doing something useful and pass the Equal Rights Amendment, its been 50yrs and women are STILL second class citizens in America. The US-WORST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

Aw poor baby is upset that he was fact checked for lying

Does that mean Twitter will now be flooded with bat-shit crazy conspiracy theories involving Trump? None of it can be censored or banned, apparently

What a crybaby. ....🍼

I'm going to cry! I LOVE THIS! Down with social media if it cherry picks comments / doesn't let people have freedom of speech !

Wow. As usual sitting on his fat butt running his nasty mouth. He gets uglier by the day — inside and out.

Hitler did the same 😡

'Toothless and likely to face legal challenges' sums up Trump almost perfectly.

Idiot

What a baby!! He’s been using twitter as a platform to have access to his supporters. But now...since someone has corrected...he sees it as a threat And he continues to use Twitter to tweet about Twitter complain about Twitters tweets? 🤨Hmmm...interesting

Biden can rip that shit up when he takes office

For god sakes this old man has lied over 18k times.

KeithOlbermann Ok, so the dude that cries about fake news, cries louder when the fake news is pointed out? Just checking.

So says ABC, A Proud Member of Fake News owned by Comcast, who will not carry OANN. That says a lot ABC.

Best news ever. Maybe now the truth that has been suppressed for so long gets out!

TheView It’s killing him he might have to rein in all that free-range lying

DonaldTrump stfu!!!

What a fucking joke by ORANGE45

Why is this idiot so afraid of truth and firing Independent inspectors..oh yeah ... because he is a gaslighting liar

berman_sid Twitter jack PLEASE suspend realDonaldTrump account NOW! This must be the final straw for this malignant narcissist. RT this to the WORLD!! End Trumps TWITTER ACCOUNT!

jonkarl At Trump, today is right what was wrong yesterday, and today is wrong what was right yesterday. Sometimes that changes within a day, within a few hours.

jonkarl That would be the second best day in American history second only to the day he leaves office.

jonkarl 'There's nothing I'd rather do than get rid of my whole Twitter account,' Pres. Trump tells jonkarl, 'PANTS ON FIRE '

jonkarl Bullshit. It allows him to ridicule the people who know the real ‘man’. It allows him to spread vile crap and joke about Democrats and it’s tiring. Crap about Obama, states against him and whoever else is the menu of the day. He needs to lead. Not condemn. Worst guy for the job.

GMA jonkarl

jonkarl So, realDonaldTrump wants to be able to FactCheck others, but doesn’t believe the same should happen to him. Gotcha! Thanks for confirming, Donnie. 😐

jonkarl Loser!!!!

KeithOlbermann jonkarl Fact check: You can't fact check Trump! RemoveTrumpFromTwitterNow

jonkarl Or tweet nonsense...

jonkarl As if countering news stories he disagrees with is an important duty of a president.

KeithOlbermann jonkarl GetTrumpoffTwitter and ban him for life!

jonkarl That’s another big lie to add to trumps history! He uses twitter to stir up hate!!

KeithOlbermann jonkarl He is so orange!. My God

jonkarl He uses it for propaganda. He can’t resist it.

KeithOlbermann jonkarl 'Fair' means 'never critical'.

jonkarl he looks BIGLY strung out here

jonkarl True

100000 deads Donald, 100000

Threw his toys out the pram more like

GMA This is only an agenda for a narcissitic crappy human being

Maybe he should stop twitting and get back to work.

He has new makeup on. He’s face is orange and his tiny hands are white. Is it fake news realDonaldTrump ?

President Trump’s “E/O” allows members of the public to sue social media companies who wrongfully ban them for having opinions that differ from the mainstream' Thankyou Mr President realDonaldTrump 👏” Trump2020 KAGA2020

Too bad he didn't jump on coronavirus as quickly as he has a fact check on his lies! Just think, maybe 50,000 Americans might still be alive and with their families.

jonkarl The Twitter addict in denial...lol

jonkarl

jonkarl We are waiting........................

KeithOlbermann jonkarl Poor President Karen

jonkarl

jonkarl I can’t wait for Sarah Cooper to do this one! 😂 realDonaldTrump

jonkarl Because the ABC/Susan Rice and the CNN/CCP networks that pushed Adam Schiff lies with no investigative journalism.

KeithOlbermann jonkarl

What do you even say to this? Countless resources and taxpayer $ are being spent on POTUS' retaliation. The ONLY reason this is happening is because he was slighted. Can you imagine a government that is directed by it's leaders' emotional immaturity? Well, here it is.

So let me get this straight, he took a break from golf to make sure Twitter is fair to him. But he’s not even worry about the COVID-19 deaths

KeithOlbermann Laser focused on the pandemic and the economy. Dude is a pathetic clown.

Twitter choosing to sensor him specifically is being responsible to the public and clearing up misinformation he insists on spreading.

America is an embarrassment. My God do something about this sociopath

I have an idea, reinstate The Fairness Doctrine. Do you have the nerve to do that Donald?

'and other the social media giants'

He is eyeing to control all social media so that data's can be used in next election...

realDonaldTrump should stop with the lies but that will never happen as the Orangutan Trump as everyone will fact check him on his lies and more lies as Trump is a crook

This guy thinks he can change the laws every time he’s wrong and feels embarrassed 😂 great

my sweet friend caro (gombell) once told me how trump used to call her gumball and gumbo cos of his food fetish and when she asked him to stop, he called her fake news. I need justice for my dear friend JusticeForCarolyn TrumpLiedPeopleDied

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Ya think?

How and why democrate are using all the media platforms in against the spirit of Americans?

Another toothless order. I'm seeing a trend.

HE IS GIVING FALSE INFORMATION IN ORDER TO SUPPRESS VOTERS FROM VOTING...SHOULD JUST CANCEL HIS ACCOUNT ...HE HAS THOUSANDS OF TWEETS TO PROVE HE HAS GONE AGAINST THEIR RULES

KingTrump2019 he’s really limiting the platform that he uses the most to have his word spread

'Could face legal challenge'? You don't say.

Trump is right again

realDonaldTrump

and yet another diversion

Just Happened Earlier Today

Is he exempting Facebook? How is this going to work? Trump, GOP, magats and their foreign buddies are the biggest offenders. Is this one of those things where you give the devil enough rope and he hangs himself?

The important thing is realDonaldTrump has brought Twitter’s bias to light. And, he got the MSM to talk about it. Brilliant.

This guy's idol must be Hitler.

Oh my good! Put this much fucking effort in that poor man who lost his life at that police officer who choked him to death, in stead of this petty shit!!! Buuuut! This is childish trump.

It 'could ' prove otherwise 🙄🙄🙄

But it sure as hell is bringing the matter to the forefront. Even you have to report on this now.

He knows this won't go through, wonder if he's using this spectacle to hide something hes doing. Wouldn't be the first time

There is something about the rule of law that Trump just doesn’t get. He says he does, he thinks he does, but he does NOT! He is acting like a toddler, angry he is held to the fire, angry he is being checked. He can’t stop people fact-checking his lies. Because they are all LIES.

It’s assbackwards. By weakening Section 230 & thus making social media companies more liable for user content, it’ll actually force these companies to curate user content MORE tightly to avoid liability. Trump might get a pass but your QAnon/MAGA fan account will be fucked.

Scary thing is, these social media outlets have more power than God, so keep that in mind folks.

Because Trump is a natural idiot.

kolejna kur...na Ambonie

Yes, but it is all about the grand gesture, playing to the base, the bluster.

Trump knows, and respects what America about as much as Stalin did.

This is Trump's stock in trade. Attack and bully but not do his homework. The only people that will buy this nonsense are his followers. Who never question anything he proposes no matter how foolish or unsupported it is.

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