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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Andy Hirschfeld

Trump accused of leading a ‘multipronged’ attack on US media

US President Donald Trump wants to make it easier to sue media organisations [Kent Nishimura/Reuters]

On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that essentially reaffirmed free speech, which is already enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

The order alleged that the previous administration of President Joe Biden “trampled on free speech” by censoring “Americans’ speech on online platforms”, and forced social media companies to comply under the guise of combatting “misinformation”, “disinformation”, and “malinformation”.

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