President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday regarding social media sites, in response to a fact-check he received from Twitter earlier this week, with hopes that his doing so will allow the reinterpretation of a law widely cited as crucial for the birth of the internet.
Trump issued an order that examines Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, according to CNN, which obtained a draft copy of the executive order before it was officially signed. A key section of that law states that “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”