Published: January 21, 2025 12:19 am
Author: RT
The US president has accused his predecessor of abusing the law under the pretext of fighting “disinformation”
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning government officials from violating the freedom of speech under the guise of combating misinformation.
Trump signed a flurry of orders hours after he was sworn in as the 47th president on Monday.
In the document, Trump accused his predecessor, Joe Biden, of “censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms” and pressuring social media companies to “moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the federal government did not approve.”
“Under the guise of combating ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation,’ the federal government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society,” the document says.
Trump tasked the authorities to “ensure that no federal government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen.”
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