Donald Trump to Issue Social Media Executive Order After Twitter Fact-Checks Tweets - Newsweek

President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order related to social media Thursday after Twitter—his favored mode of direct communication to his supporters—attached a fact-check disclaimer to his tweets about mail-in voting this week.

"Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices.

Twitter and similar social media platforms receive a special carve-out from liability that traditional publishers hold under the Communications Decency Act because they are considered passive distributors of third-party content.

Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), said during his podcast, Hot Takes with Matt Gaetz, on Wednesday that he alo backs an effort to prevent social media giants like Twitter from fact-checking content on their platforms.

"Are we going to continue to treat entities like Twitter, like Facebook, like Google as unbiased platforms or are they going to take on more of the role of a news organization?" he said.

Gaetz said on his podcast that social media platforms are protected from the types of repercussions that newspapers, TV stations and traditional media outlets face.

"They have special benefits as digital platforms because they're not creating content for which they should be liable," Gaetz said.

"Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!" Trump tweeted hours later