On Thursday, Twitter interfered with President Trump’s feed by claiming that he had made false statements about the risks of using the Wuhan virus to justify voting by mail. Twitter was factually wrong, but that wasn’t the real scandal. The real scandal was that Twitter aggressively censored political speech and it did this in an election year against a candidate whom Twitter employees openly despise. President Trump responded by issuing an executive order mandating that government agencies interpret § 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act as Congress intended. This means that social media and search engines that censor or alter third-party content have immunity from lawsuits only if the content is illegal or imminently dangerous (terrorist threats, sex trafficking, etc.). Otherwise, if the tech titans interfere with third-party content, they are acting as publishers and can be held liable for whatever torts creative attorneys can devise. On Friday, Twitter...(Read Full Post)