Tech companies have consistently rejected claims that their platforms discriminate based on partisan ideology. Last spring, while he was still in office, Trump signed an executive order aimed at "preventing online censorship" and seeking to expand legal liability for tech companies. Prior legal efforts against Big TechThe push to bring legal action against tech platforms over bias allegations has spread nationwide. But much of the momentum for changing Section 230 has come from Republicans upset about how social media companies have enforced their rules when conservatives have broken them. Trump's suits do advance an unusual argument to try to get around that, but legal experts said that argument also lacks merit and is not likely to succeed.

Source: CNN July 07, 2021 15:14 UTC