Fortune: Experts say Trump’s threats to Twitter have little legal standing—but they detract from COVID-19 efforts

President Donald Trump is mad at Twitter, and he’s planning on using his authority to do something about it. 

The White House has issued an executive order which could give the federal government broad and unprecedented authority over social media companies. The plan attempts to trim down current laws that protect companies like Twitter and Facebook from liability over what users post on their platforms.  

The order asks the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to roll back parts of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which is seen as the largest protector of free speech on the web. It comes immediately after Trump became angered by a fact-checking tag placed on the bottom of two tweets where he made false claims about vote-by-mail fraud.

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