WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that he said was aimed at “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship.”
Trump and his conservative allies had accused the administration of former President Joe Biden of suppressing free speech on online platforms.
“Over the last 4 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.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington)
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