{"id":2099,"date":"2020-05-28T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2020-05-28T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:39:54","slug":"sound-and-fury-trump-pledges-to-sign-executive-order-against-social-media-after-twitter-fact-checks-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/sound-and-fury-trump-pledges-to-sign-executive-order-against-social-media-after-twitter-fact-checks-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound and Fury: Trump Pledges to Sign Executive Order Against Social Media After Twitter Fact-Checks Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Sensitive!<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order &#8220;pertaining to social media&#8221; today. What it will do is yet to be determined. Although some speculate it could empower federal agencies to penalize social media companies for their biased content moderation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/President-Donald-Trump-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2100 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/President-Donald-Trump-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s proposal comes after Twitter labeled a pair of the President&#8217;s tweets as potentially misleading. In the tweets, Trump alleged without evidence that mail-in ballots are &#8220;substantially fraudulent&#8221; and that California Governor Gavin Newsom was sending ballots to millions of citizens.<\/p>\n<p>For those keeping track at home, it is illegal under the First Amendment for a President to silence a private company from criticizing or labeling his posts. Thus, it remains to be seen how much the President will actually be able to accomplish with his executive order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Donald-Trump-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2101 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Donald-Trump-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, he can ask the Federal Communications Commission to do his bidding and narrow the scope of Section 230, a provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act that protects social media companies from legal liability.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of the President&#8217;s actions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Sensitive! President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order &#8220;pertaining to social media&#8221; today. What it will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115,609],"tags":[118,653,312,652,638,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}