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May 29, 2020

Trump Executive Order Threatens to Punish Social Media Companies over Fact-Checking
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On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that could be
used to punish social media companies, including Twitter, for how they
monitor content. This comes after Twitter on Tuesday took the
unprecedented step of adding a fact-check label to two tweets in which
Trump erroneously attacked mail-in voting. Meanwhile, Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg on Thursday defended his company's refusal to regulate
misinformation - including false and deceptive political advertisements.
Zuckerberg spoke with CNBC.

Mark Zuckerberg: "I don't think that Facebook or internet platforms, in
general, should be arbiters of truth. I think that's a kind of a
dangerous line to get down to in terms of deciding what is - what is
true and what isn't."



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