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President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order aimed at curbing protections for social media giants, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump walks back his incendiary Minneapolis ‘thugs’ post

By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) ** FILE **

Ted Cruz wants a federal investigation of Twitter for allegedly violating Iran sanctions

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks as he receives a briefing on the 2020 hurricane season in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Twitter adds ‘glorifying violence’ warning to Trump tweet

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President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order aimed at curbing protections for social media giants, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s feud with Twitter escalates after platform tags his tweet on riots for ‘glorifying violence’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 19, 2019, file photo, political activist Laura Loomer holds uo a sign across the street from a rally organized by Women's March NYC after she barged onto the stage interrupting Women's March NYC director Agunda Okeyo who was speaking during a rally in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Laura Loomer, right-wing activist, says Trump should quit Twitter, ‘issue the final death blow’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, May 27, 2020, after traveling to Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump escalates war on Twitter, social media protections

By ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Pelosi says Trump’s social media executive order ‘does nothing’ to stop disinformation

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, April 10, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook shouldn’t be ‘arbiter of truth’ of online content

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today. Those are the words President Donald Trump challenged in an executive order Thursday, May 28, 2020 one that would strip those protections if those companies engaged in “editorial decisions” — like, for instance, adding a fact-check warning to one of Trump's tweets. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Twitter responds to Trump social-media executive order

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks at an event on protecting seniors with diabetes in the Rose Garden White House, Tuesday, May 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump to sign social media executive order

By Dave Boyer and Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Trump’s threat to regulate social media draws mixed responses from conservatives banned from Twitter

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks to media as he arrives for a briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March, 12, 2020, on the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Mitt Romney defends MSNBC host Joe Scarborough from Trump’s murder accusations: ‘Enough already’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 26, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during an event on protecting seniors with diabetes in the Rose Garden White House in Washington. On Tuesday, Twitter took the unprecedented step of adding fact-check alerts to two of Trump’s tweets about voting by mail. The next day the president threatened social media companies with new regulation or even shuttering. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump threatens Twitter over fact checks: What’s next?

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during an event on protecting seniors with diabetes in the Rose Garden White House, Tuesday, May 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: We will regulate or ‘close down’ social media platforms before they silence conservatives

By David Sherfinski and Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, May 27, 2020, after traveling to Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Twitter fact-checks Trump; he threatens new regs or shutdown

By ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

In this Oct. 11, 2017, file photo, MSNBC television anchor Joe Scarborough takes questions from an audience at forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Bookmaker sets over/under line at 6.5 for ‘misleading’ Trump tweets next month

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 11, 2017, file photo, MSNBC television anchor Joe Scarborough takes questions from an audience at forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Twitter allows Donald Trump’s Joe Scarborough tweets

By Dino Hazell and Barbara Ortutay - The Associated Press

In this Oct. 11, 2017, file photo, MSNBC television anchor Joe Scarborough takes questions from an audience at forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

In a first, Twitter adds fact-check warnings to Trump tweets

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and DINO HAZELL - Associated Press

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, donating $5 million to fund ‘micro-grants’ given out by Andrew Yang group

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times