White House Keeps Up Pressure on FCC to Act Against Social Media
- Press Secretary McEnany cites ‘censorship’ by online companies
- Trump wants to weaken legal shield for Twitter, Facebook
Donald Trump
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The White House is keeping up the pressure on regulators to weaken a legal shield that social media giants such as Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Google say is crucial to them.
The Commerce Department on Monday asked the Federal Communications Commission to write a regulation weakening protections laid out in Section 230, language in a 1996 law that protects online companies from legal liability for users’ posts, and for decisions to remove material.