Twitter Flags More of President Trump’s Posts Following Executive Order

Yesterday President Trump signed an executive order in attempt to weaken social media companies. This comes after Twitter flagged two of the president’s tweets as potentially misleading in regards to mail-in voting. The president claims the order was created in order to “defend freedom of speech.” He said, “they’ve had unchecked power to censor, restrict, edit, shape, hide, alter, virtually any form of communication between private citizens and large public audiences.” Many have raised concerns this new order violates the private companies right to free speech. Since then, Twitter has flagged more tweets written by the president with “public interest notices”. This came following a series of tweets where the president called the Minneapolis rioters “thugs” and said, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”. Twitter said the president violated their rules by “glorifying violence” but have decided not to remove them “for the public’s interest”.