The Trump administration might take tangible action against social-media companies—or so it claims
warned that “a lot of bad things are happening” on the internet—and he wasn’t talking about his own toxic tweets. He was, instead, ranting about the supposed anti-conservative bias he and his supporters have accused Twitter, Facebook, and other prominent tech companies of harboring. “We have censorship like nobody has any understanding or nobody can believe,” Trump said at the time. “They’re playing with a lot of minds, and they’re playing unfairly.
It’s unclear what the executive order, which has reportedly gone through multiple iterations, would actually do; none of’s sources would describe its contents. That lack of specificity raises questions about the plan’s feasibility. In July, Trump vowed to “explore all regulatory and legislative solutions to protect free speech,” but it’s not clear what power he actually has in that respect.
Cries of bias have been frequent on the right for a while now, but conservatives have been especially irate in recent months as Twitter and Facebook have attempted to crack down on dangerous content, banning some of the web’s most awful people, includingand other prominent pro-Trump wack-jobs. Trump has been particularly enraged by the crackdown, turning it into a cause célèbre.
In addition to railing against their supposed anti-conservative bias, Trump has also deflected blame to Silicon Valley in the wake of two mass shootings last weekend, including one in which the alleged gunman posted a racist manifesto to social media before killing nearly two dozen people at an El Paso Walmart. Rather than endorse gun control measures, the president has
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