Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Political Bias in Social Media Firms

President Donald Trump holds up a front page of the New York Post as he speaks to reporters while he signing an executive order on social media companies in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on May 28, 2020. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to crack down on what he described was censorship by social media sites after Twitter added fact-checking labels to several of his posts.

In a signing event, Trump said the action is designed “to defend free speech from one of the greatest dangers” while adding that Twitter, Facebook, and Google have “unchecked power.”