Read the full executive order about social media companies that President Trump signed

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• Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday designed to achieve "transparency and accountability from online platforms."
• The executive order is specifically aimed at social media and it names Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
• The move comes two days after Twitter fact-checked two of Trump's tweets pushing false claims about voting by mail.
• Trump's executive order seeks to empower federal regulators to amend a statute that gives social-media companies broad authority to moderate speech on their platforms.
• First Amendment experts say Trump has "absolutely no legal authority" to regulate or shut down social-media companies when he disagrees with them, and his executive order will likely face tough pushback.
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Here is the full text of President Trump's executive order relating to social media, published by the White House on Thursday May 28, 2020.

Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

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