Executive order targeting social Media Companies at the white house. Were waiting for that as well. Fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman with the latest from the president. Lauren simonetti watching markets. Hillary vaughn and Edward Lawrence in washington. Lets kick it off with blake. Reporter hi, there, connell and melissa. What is important what is happening right now in the oval office with President Trump as it relates to this executive order and social Media Companies is, that the attorney general bill barr is there. So you have got President Trump, the attorney general and as we are going through the notes here as this is happening, what the administration, the president and his ag, are taking aim at is section 230 of the Communications Decency act. It appears as if as well that the president according to the notes is going to try to insure somehow that taxpayer dollars necessarily dont flow into these social Media Companies. That we await to see the exact comments that the
Latest kayla . Melissa, this effort by the white house to target social Media Companies for a perceived bias has been under way for nearly a year, but in the wake of twitters Fact Checking President Trumps own tweets, policy officials rushed the executive order out today. Heres what is in it which the president signed this afternoon. Agencies from the fcc to the ftc and many other agencies in between are directed to review liability shields that are provided to these content companies that protect them from lawsuits over what appears on their platforms. The department of justice are directed to organize state attorneys general to enforce the crackdown. The federal government is also going to be issuing a widespread review of taxpayer dollars that are going to these platforms in terms of the governments own ad spending and all of this is expected to happen over the next 30 days. These agencies are supposed to report back and these funding totals are supposed to be submitted to the offic
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