Enraged by Twitter smackdown, Trump directs social media clampdown

WASHINGTON: Accusing social media giants like

Twitter

,

Facebook

, and Google of an “anti-conservative bias,” US President

Donald Trump

is set to sign an executive order on Thursday aimed at regulating online platforms and taking away some of the legal protections they enjoy.

“This will be a Big Day for Social Media and FAIRNESS!” Trump tweeted on Thursday morning on the very platform he himself uses vigorously to dispense news, views, propaganda, inflammatory rumors, and conspiracy theories, and which platform implicitly and mildly reprimanded him on Tuesday with a fact-check mark against one of his posts.

Enraged by the smackdown, Trump is now taking the battle to California’s Silicon Valley — where major social media companies are based — which has l