Update: According to a CNN report on Friday, a planned executive order would attempt to limit existing legal protections for social media companies under an important piece of existing federal legislation, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which limits a platform’s liability for the content its users post. Section 230 helps shield social networks from being sued by their users over what companies allow or don’t allow on their websites. According to CNN, a draft of the executive order — which is still under revision — calls for the FCC to develop new regulations and for the FTC to enforce those rules.

The Trump administration is reportedly drafting the executive order to combat the bias that some Republicans accuse social media companies of displaying against conservatives, according to Politico, which first reported the story. Details of the draft order are still vague, and it’s not clear what penalties, if any, the administration will be able to legally enforce, given protections to media platforms under the First Amendment.

Regardless of whether it’s a serious regulatory threat or not, news of this drafted executive order emphasizes yet again that one of President Donald Trump’s main campaign tenets in the 2020 election will be to stoke his conservative base’s fears that Big Tech is prejudiced against Republicans and is manipulating the upcoming election.

Earlier this week, Trump posted a series of now-deleted tweets accusing Google of displaying political bias against him; in them, he vowed that he will be “watching Google very closely!”

As Recode and other outlets have reported, there has been no evidence to prove that companies such as Google and Twitter have anti-conservative bias baked into their products. Regardless, the president and Republican lawmakers have continued to make such claims, emboldened in part by a recent claim by a former Google engineer that he was fired for his conservative political views. (Google says the employee was fired for misusing company equipment; other reports indicate that he shared emails internally in which he defended white supremacist groups.)

But the president’s allegations against Big Tech are far wider and sustained than just those surrounding Google. Here are examples from the past few months alone, per Emily Stewart for Recode:

Last month, the president held a social media summit to address these alleged issues, without inviting any of the social media platforms themselves. At the same time that he criticizes social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube, he continues to spend record amounts advertising on their platforms.

This potential executive order is another example of what many see as media posturing that won’t result in tangible actions against these companies. It also serves as a distraction from the issue of hate speech on social media that was at play in the recent mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.

Still, the president’s continued complaints against social media companies are likely to have a real impact: by setting the agenda in the national conversation about how these companies moderate speech on their platforms.

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