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Lawsuit Alleges Donald Trump’s Executive Order Targeting Twitter, Facebook Violates First Amendment

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By Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to strip social-media companies of legal liability for speech on their platforms is unconstitutional, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by a nonprofit technology policy group.

The D.C.-based Center for Democracy & Technology filed a lawsuit naming Trump as a defendant “in his official capacity as President of the United States,” saying his executive order on “preventing online censorship” violates the First Amendment.

Trump — irate over Twitter’s move to append fact-checking labels to his misleading claims about mail-in voting — issued an executive order May 28 that seeks to rescind legal protections social networks have under current U.S.

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