Understanding Trump’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship

On May 28, 2020, President Donald Trump issued his “Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship.” What is the purpose of this executive order? How will the executive order affect tech giants like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram? David Wood discusses the problem that the executive order was meant to address (namely, the abuse by social media companies of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) and how Trump’s executive order is supposed to correct the problem.