In the News Trump’s social media executive order is a logical mess, but threats don’t need to be logical
“The issue I have and I think a lot of people are starting to realize is the executive order doesn’t need to be legally enforceable to still be a threat to these companies,” Jeffrey Westling, a technology and innovation policy fellow at R Street Institute, told the Times. “The companies will likely win any challenge, but no one wants to go through litigation. It becomes a cost-benefit analysis of, ‘Is it worth it to put a fact check the next time the president puts a false tweet out there?’”
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