by Laura Harris, Natural News:
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- President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship in the United States.
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- The order prohibits federal officials from engaging in conduct that “unconstitutionally abridges” free speech and bars the use of taxpayer resources for infringing on speech rights.
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- The White House claims the previous administration had trampled free speech rights by pressuring social media companies to suppress certain types of speech.
- Tech giants like Meta are adopting a more hands-off approach to misinformation, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ending the company’s U.S. fact-checking program and easing restrictions on discussions around contentious issues.
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- Some argue that the shift in tech companies’ policies is driven partly by the desire to avoid confrontation with the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will restore the freedom of speech and end federal censorship in the United States.
Trump had faced social media restrictions himself following the Jan. 6, 2021, incident on the U.S. Capitol. At the time, his supporters were protesting against the results of the 2020 election.
Since then, Trump and his allies have been accusing the previous Democratic administration of former President Joe Biden of suppressing free speech on online platforms. They also argue that the Biden administration’s push to remove misinformation about coronavirus vaccines constitutes illegal government interference in free speech.
“Over the last four years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, de-platform or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve,” the White House said on Jan. 20.
“Under the guise of combating ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation’ and ‘malinformation,’ the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society,” the White House added.
