Facebook and some members of the Federal Communications Commission appear to be helping President Trump in his war against Twitter as he pushes for unfettered speech and less content moderation online.

Yet tech industry experts say that Trump’s fight to revoke a law that protects websites from being held liable for content posted on their platforms could backfire on him and cause more censorship and content moderation, not less.

Twitter, for the first time last week, decided to place fact-checking and warning labels on a few of Trump’s tweets, setting off a political firestorm. The Trump campaign said the move showed “clear political bias” by the tech giant, and Trump signed an executive order last week to combat what he described as unfair censorship.

Twitter’s social media rival Facebook has taken a very different approach to Trump’s content, despite having similar content moderation policies as Twitter. Facebook has not applied any of its standard fact-checking labels to Trump’s posts, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg implied Twitter’s decision to fact-check the president was wrong. Zuckerberg said Facebook does not want to be an “arbiter of truth.”

Gigi Sohn, a former FCC adviser and a fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy, said that Facebook gets a lot of ad revenue from Trump, while Twitter does not, which makes Twitter less dependent on Trump’s approval. Furthermore, Facebook is under antitrust scrutiny from Trump’s Justice Department.

She added that Facebook puts itself in the position of “arbiter of truth” because its algorithm determines what people see and don’t see, and it often takes down content, just not posts created by politicians.

“Facebook moderates content, but they just don’t want to do it with political content. They are an arbiter of truth when they want to be, but not when it will hurt their bottom line and their political standing,” said Sohn.

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