{"id":25426,"date":"2020-05-28T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T22:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25426"},"modified":"2020-05-28T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T22:49:47","slug":"trump-signs-executive-order-about-social-media-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25426","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs executive order about social media companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order targeting Twitter and other social media giants, saying he is taking action to &#8220;defend free speech from one of the gravest dangers it has faced in American history,&#8221; after Twitter called two of his tweets &#8220;potentially misleading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Calling it a &#8220;big deal,&#8221; Trump said the order allows for new regulations so that social media companies &#8220;that engage in censoring or any political conduct will not be able to keep their liability shield,&#8221; but experts say he probably can&#8217;t do much without congressional approval and any move will be met with legal challenges.<\/p>\n<div data-box-type=\"fitt-adbox-incontentTeads\">\n<div id=\"ad-slot-incontentTeads-759330\" class=\"Ad incontentTeads incontentTeads--story ad-slot\" data-slot-type=\"incontentTeads\" data-collapse-before-load=\"true\" data-slot-kvps=\"tag=news,objid=70925213,pgn=politics,pgtyp=story,lang=en,sp=abcnews,programmatic=true,bundleId=com.abcnews,level=undefined,pos=incontentTeads\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere said the president signed the executive order right after reporters left the Oval Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Thursday signed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25427,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25426\/revisions\/25427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}