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White House officials revealed that the president is in the process of drafting an executive order in response to the waves of complaints about anti-conservative bias on social media platforms, per Politico. Currently, no detail exists on what the order might look like. Trump held an unusual "social media summit" at the White House. AP Photo/Evan Vucci

This comes in the wake of two recent events in which conservatives accused tech platforms of anti-conservative bias: the White House's recent "social media summit" in June, which did not invite reps from the major platforms, but instead brought in an amalgam of conservative actors, including lawmakers, and representatives from conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation; and a US Senate hearing in April in which senators grilled platform reps from Twitter, Facebook, and Google on their supposed bias.

While allegations of conservative bias have grown stronger over time, platforms have denied any tilt on their end. The right side of the aisle has repeatedly complained about purported discrimination against conservative viewpoints on social platforms: Just a month after the president announced he was determined to pursue "all regulatory and legislative solutions" on the Big Tech front.

And at the April hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called out tech giants: "If we have tech companies using the power of monopoly to censor political speech, I think that raises real antitrust issues." For their part, platforms have all vehemently denied any bias, and there's some evidence to exonerate them. For instance, conservative outlets thrive on platforms like Facebook: Fox News — a presidential favorite — has 17 million followers on its Facebook page, and consistently enjoys higher engagement than CNN.

Fox News got 80% more reactions, comments, and shares than CNN, which has almost double the amount of followers at 31 million. The engagement rate on Fox's posts is higher than every other major news organization on the platform, hitting five-times higher the level of engagement of the New York Times' posts over the past three years. The president additionally complained about Google discriminating against conservatives in search, but as Recode pointed out, his analysis of how the search engine's algorithms work was off-base.

At this point, an executive order seems likely to be issued — probably ahead of the 2020 campaigns — but it seems unlikely that platforms will need to make significant changes as a result. More than anything, such an order would likely be symbolic. As private organizations, there's no law that requires social platforms to include or remove certain content — platforms are not under obligation to preserve the mandate of freedom of speech.

And while they do have community guidelines, these rules mostly exist to shape the platform in a way that appeals to users and advertisers. And in the past year alone, platforms have made a lot of changes to better the user experience and make their networks safer for advertisers, but those changes have likely added fuel to the anti-conservative bias claims — if they've moved the needle at all.

It's theoretically possible that an executive order mandates that platforms change their community guidelines further, or at least the enforcement of them, but I don't think it will result in meaningful change to the operations of social networks.

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