Photo: ReutersUS President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies, White House officials say, after Trump threatened to shut down the platform he accused of stifling conservative voices. Before leaving for Florida earlier in the day to observe a space launch that was postponed because of bad weather, Trump again accused Twitter Inc and other social media of bias without offering evidence. The American Civil Liberties Union said the First Amendment of the US Constitution limits any action Trump could take to regulate social media platforms. In the tweets tagged by Twitter, Trump made unsubstantiated claims about mail-in voting. "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 28, 2020 01:30 UTC