President Trump is expected to issue an executive order today regarding Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which would roll back liability protections for social media companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter.
Trump is doing this for two reasons. First, because Twitter dared to fact check two of his tweets regarding mail in balloting which contained verifiable false information. Second, he is doing this to deflect from the fact that 100,000 people and counting have died under his watch during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In other words, it is all about him as usual. Trump is an aspiring tyrant who believes himself to be above criticism and sees fit to penalize those who would dare hold him to account. Of course, Trump is delving into matters over which he has no authority. But it is an act that will motivate his supporters to cast another ballot for him November. Even if he eventually overruled by the courts, his supporters will chant, "He Fight!!!" even if he is only fighting for himself.
It can be said that anything he does between now and November is for the purpose of deflecting from his COVID-19 response. If he wasn't planning on issuing an executive order against social media companies he would still be spreading conspiracy theories falsely accusing MSNBC host Joe Scarborough of murder.
Yet in light of his forthcoming executive order against Twitter it would be fair to say that if COVID-19 had dared to fact checked Trump he would have acted against it a whole lot sooner.
Alas COVID-19 doesn't care who you are and Trump just doesn't care - unless it about him.
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