U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on social media on Thursday, according to local media reports.
The reports, citing unnamed White House officials, came a day after microblogging site, Twitter, tagged Trumpโs tweets on mail-in voting as misleading.
In the tweets, the president told his over 80 million followers that voting through mail, otherwise known as mail-in ballots, was prone to fraud.
Shortly after, Twitter tagged the tweets with a circled exclamation mark followed by the text: โGet the facts about mail-in ballotsโ in a hyperlink.
The link takes readers to a Twitter fact-check page that debunks the claim.
This infuriated the president who accused Twitter of interfering in the Nov. 3 presidential election and then threatened to โheavily regulateโ or close down social media platforms.
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Details of the impending executive order were not provided, but Newsweek magazine offered a clue in its report.
The magazine quoted two unnamed allies of the President in Congress as saying they were willing to strip Twitter of the โspecial speech liability immunity it receives because of the fact-checking flapโ.
Meanwhile, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly faulted Twitter for fact-checking Trumpโs tweets.
Zuckerberg reasoned the social media platforms should not be the โarbiters of truthโ, according to the New York Post.
The paper said the Facebook CEO spoke in an interview with Fox News scheduled to air on Thursday.
โWe have a different policy, I think than Twitter on this.
โI just believe strongly that Facebook shouldnโt be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online.
โIn general, private companies probably shouldnโt be, especially these platform companies, shouldnโt be in the position of doing that,โ he reportedly said.
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