Donald Trump: He prepares a presidential decree and puts it on Twitter and Facebook

The American president Donald Trump intends to sign a presidential decree today to review legislation protecting social media.

Τthe revision of the legislation it protects Google Twitter, Facebook and Alphabet of any responsibility related to the content posted by their users, is expected to be requested today, by presidential decree, by US President Donald Trump, according to the draft that has been released.

Specifically, as reported by APE-MPE, Trump threatened to close social networking sites He accused them of silencing conservative voices after a dispute with Twitter, when webmasters identified the US president's two posts as "misleading" and asked users to check the validity of his claims.

Note that the presidential decree, a draft of which has come into the possession of Reuters, may be amended. Officials said yesterday that Trump would sign a presidential decree for social media companies today.

As mentioned, the decree will ask Federal Communications Commission (FCC) propose amendments and clarifications to articles of legislation that largely protect online platforms from legal implications for their users' posts. If changes are made to the law, social media companies may face more lawsuits.

It will also be requested by FCC examine whether these companies use misleading policies to regulate their content and whether these policies comply with their terms of use. The draft decree also states that the White House Digital Strategy Service will reinstate a tool to help citizens report cases of online censorship.

Reactions to "censorship"

In an interview with Fox News, the founder and head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg said that Censorship of a social networking platform would not be the "right reaction" for a government concerned about censorship.

Fox aired a short excerpt of that interview yesterday Wednesday and announced it would be broadcast in its entirety today.

For its part, h American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) considered that the First Amendment of the American Constitution limits the actions of the American president.

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