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Extra Extra: Donald Trump Signs Social Media Executive Order After Twitter Starts Fact-Checking Him


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Published May 28, 2020


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  • Donald Trump, who is very upset that Twitter has started fact-checking him on the site, has issued an executive order telling regulators to reexamine a law that shields social-media companies from liability for content posted on their services.
  • Here's the inside story from Twitter about its decision to fact-check Trump's tweets about mail-in ballots: “The company needed to do what’s right, and we knew from a comms perspective that all hell would break loose,” said Twitter’s vice president of global communications.
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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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