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Tuesday 2 June 2020

Trump’s Twitter order violates the First Amendment, new lawsuit claims

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President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting social media companies faced its first legal challenge Tuesday, claiming that Trump violated the companies’ rights to free speech.

In its lawsuit, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) called Trump’s order “retaliatory” because it specifically attacked Twitter for using its First Amendment right to comment and moderate the president’s tweets. By attacking Twitter, the organization claimed that Trump’s order could discourage other platforms from exercising their free speech rights to moderate the president’s posts out of fear of retaliation from the federal government.

“The Executive Order is designed to deter social media services from fighting misinformation, voter suppression,...

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from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21278517/donald-trump-twitter-executive-order-lawsuit-challenge
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