Signs Executive Order 13925 targeting social media after Twitter fact-checked him

On May 28, 2020, President Trump signed Executive Order 13925, 'Preventing Online Censorship,' two days after Twitter added fact-check labels to his tweets about mail-in voting. The order sought to narrow the liability protections that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act affords online platforms, directing the NTIA to petition the FCC for rulemaking and routing complaints to the Justice Department and FTC. Legal analysts and critics widely described the order as retaliation against Twitter that a president lacks authority to enforce, since Section 230 is set by Congress. The order marked an attempt to wield federal regulatory machinery against a company that had corrected his statements.

"In a country that has long cherished the freedom of expression, we cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to hand pick the speech that Americans may access and convey on the internet." Quote verified against source