At his profoundly weird and utterly pointless social media summit at the White House last month, Donald Trump warned that “a lot of bad things are happening” on the internet—and he wasn’t talking about his own toxic tweets. He was, instead, ranting about the supposed anti-conservative bias he and his supporters have accused Twitter, Facebook, and other prominent tech companies of harboring. “We have censorship like nobody has any understanding or nobody can believe,” Trump said at the time. “They’re playing with a lot of minds, and they’re playing unfairly.”

Now, according to a new report, the Trump administration might take tangible action against social-media companies—or so it claims. Officials told Politico Wednesday that the White House is drafting an executive order to address the supposed Democratic bias as part of a push to counteract “liberal cesspools of venom” on Twitter and in other corners of the web. “The president wants some fairness in the system,” a White House source told the outlet. “They have a vital role and an increasing responsibility to the culture that has helped make them so profitable and so prominent.”

It’s unclear what the executive order, which has reportedly gone through multiple iterations, would actually do; none of Politico’s sources would describe its contents. That lack of specificity raises questions about the plan’s feasibility. In July, Trump vowed to “explore all regulatory and legislative solutions to protect free speech,” but it’s not clear what power he actually has in that respect. “There’s very little in terms of direct regulation the federal government can do without congressional action,” John Morris, who handled internet policy issues at the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, told Politico Wednesday. As such, the whole thing reads like an empty appeal to Trump’s base—and a threat against social media companies as they struggle to respond to hate speech and misinformation on their platforms without further infuriating the president.

Cries of bias have been frequent on the right for a while now, but conservatives have been especially irate in recent months as Twitter and Facebook have attempted to crack down on dangerous content, banning some of the web’s most awful people, including Alex Jones and other prominent pro-Trump wack-jobs. Trump has been particularly enraged by the crackdown, turning it into a cause célèbre. “Twitter is just terrible, what they do,” he said in an interview earlier this summer, suggesting without evidence that the company is artificially lowering his follower count. The companies have likewise faced pressure from the left over the hate speech, conspiracy theories, and disinformation that’s long been allowed to fester on their platforms.

In addition to railing against their supposed anti-conservative bias, Trump has also deflected blame to Silicon Valley in the wake of two mass shootings last weekend, including one in which the alleged gunman posted a racist manifesto to social media before killing nearly two dozen people at an El Paso Walmart. Rather than endorse gun control measures, the president has invited tech leaders to a roundtable to discuss ways to “shine light on the dark recesses of the internet and stop mass murders before they start,” as Trump put it in an address on the massacres Monday. What comes of this meeting remains to be seen. (If it doesn’t involve former Trump adviser Seb Gorka nearly coming to blows with a Playboy reporter, it’ll already be an improvement on the first social media summit.) With the threat of an executive order, however, the White House may be attempting to take advantage of a particularly sensitive moment to bend companies to its will.

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