Trump aims at Biden-era social media "censorship"
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order focused on safeguarding freedom of speech. Read Full Article at RT.com.
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The US president has accused his predecessor of abusing the law under the pretext of fighting “disinformation.”
US President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order prohibiting government officials from infringing on freedom of speech while claiming to combat misinformation.
The Trump order claims that his predecessor, Joe Biden, has been “censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms” and exerting pressure on social media companies to “moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the federal government did not approve.”
In 2020, Twitter and Facebook limited the reach of a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden's laptop. Elon Musk has disclosed the close relationship between the FBI and Twitter, noting that the agency issued multiple requests to censor accounts it alleged were disseminating disinformation, requests to which the platform agreed.
Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, acknowledged earlier this month that authorities had pressured his platform to remove content considered Covid misinformation, including vaccination memes. He subsequently shut down US fact-checking services, which he recognized were “politically biased.”
The Trump order elaborates, “Under the guise of combatting ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation,’ the federal government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.”
Trump has directed officials to “ensure that no federal government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen.”
The US State Department's Global Engagement Center, which faced heavy criticism as a 'Ministry of Truth,' ultimately closed in December 2024, following numerous allegations of censoring Republican voices and the contention that a government entity determining truth from falsehoods violated the first amendment of the constitution.
James del Carmen contributed to this report for TROIB News
US President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order prohibiting government officials from infringing on freedom of speech while claiming to combat misinformation.
The Trump order claims that his predecessor, Joe Biden, has been “censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms” and exerting pressure on social media companies to “moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the federal government did not approve.”
In 2020, Twitter and Facebook limited the reach of a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden's laptop. Elon Musk has disclosed the close relationship between the FBI and Twitter, noting that the agency issued multiple requests to censor accounts it alleged were disseminating disinformation, requests to which the platform agreed.
Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, acknowledged earlier this month that authorities had pressured his platform to remove content considered Covid misinformation, including vaccination memes. He subsequently shut down US fact-checking services, which he recognized were “politically biased.”
The Trump order elaborates, “Under the guise of combatting ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation,’ the federal government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.”
Trump has directed officials to “ensure that no federal government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen.”
The US State Department's Global Engagement Center, which faced heavy criticism as a 'Ministry of Truth,' ultimately closed in December 2024, following numerous allegations of censoring Republican voices and the contention that a government entity determining truth from falsehoods violated the first amendment of the constitution.
James del Carmen contributed to this report for TROIB News
