Without social media, it’s likely that Donald Trump would never have been elected president. After all, without Russian bots pushing highly targeted propaganda on Facebook using data passed to them by Trump campaign manager and convicted felon Paul Manafort and the free publicity garnered through Trump’s Twitter posts, his thin margin of victory in a handful of swing states may never have happened.
Now, in what many see either as an attempt to prevent anyone else from replicating his strategy or else as a way to pressure major tech companies to cease the removal of offensive extremist right-wing posts, the Trump administration is circulating a draft of an executive order that — according to civil liberties groups — would censor the internet in an attempt to bite the hand that fed its own success, Politico reports,
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