ADIn late 2017, a month after congressional hearings on social media and Russian interference, a period of soul-searching began across social media companies. ADTwitter executives also watched in 2018 as Facebook struggled to respond to criticism that military leaders and government officials used violent social media posts to incite a genocide in Myanmar. ADTrump quickly directed his ire over the labels toward Twitter and took aim at social media companies as a whole. Trump once again accused social media companies of trying to “silence” conservative voices, a claim that Trump and some Republican members of Congress have raised over the past year. The order is Trump’s latest attempt to punish social media companies for what he claims is political bias against conservatives.

Source: Washington Post May 29, 2020 22:07 UTC