Biden Revokes Trump Order Protecting Users From Censorship on Social Media

Biden Revokes Trump Order Protecting Users From Censorship on Social Media
President Joe Biden takes questions from reporters in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on May 5, 2021. Evan Vucci/AP Photo
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President Joe Biden this week revoked an order from the previous Trump administration that sought to protect users from unfair or deceptive content restriction practices by Big Tech companies.

The effect of the revocation would require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the heads of executive departments to take steps to rescind any regulations or policies that enforced former President Donald Trump’s executive order entitled “Preventing Online Censorship,” which was signed in May last year.