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The Key Points of Trump’s Executive Order on Social Media Censorship

President Donald Trump signed an executive order today aimed at addressing social media censorship. Breitbart News has broken down the order into its key components, which include defining social media as the “modern public square,” and potentially changing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the crucial legal protection enjoyed exclusively by the Big Tech Masters of the Universe.

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Who Is Big Tech’s ‘Arbiter of Truth’? More than Ever, It’s a Corrupt, Orwellian Wikipedia

Even as the criticism of Wikipedia’s left-wing political bias intensifies, including from the site’s co-founder Larry Sanger, the major tech platforms continue to use the online encyclopedia in their services and rely on it as a model for addressing “fake news” concerns. Rather than improving their services, the integration of Wikipedia into Big Tech platforms has, instead, made them disseminate false or biased information.

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Jack Dorsey Goes on Defensive After Twitter ‘Fact-Checks’ President Trump

In a recent series of Tweets, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his recent decision to “fact check” and place warnings on two of President Donald Trump’s tweets. According to Dorsey, Twitter “fact checking” the president does not make the company an “arbiter of truth,” claiming that instead, the site was attempting to “connect the dots of conflicting statements.”

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MSNBC’s Heilemann: ‘Empathy Is Joe Biden’s Superpower’

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” network contributor John Heilemann reacted to a campaign video of presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden addressing Americans who are “hurting” from the coronavirus pandemic in which he offered his condolences and blamed President Donald Trump’s administration for the loss of many lives.

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Barbra Streisand, John Legend Teaming Up to Raise Money for Joe Biden

Joe Biden is once again dipping into the pockets of wealthy Hollywood elites to fuel his bid for The White House. The presumptive Democrat nominee is joining forces with Barbra Streisand and John Legend, who will headline a virtual fundraiser for the 77-year-old candidate set for June 11.

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Biden: ‘We’ll Never Again Be Dependent on China’ for Medical Supplies

During an interview with Cleveland’s Fox 8 on Tuesday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden vowed that if he is elected president, the United States won’t depend on China or any other nation for medical supplies and that he’ll use the federal government’s production power to make medical supplies in the U.S., eliminate tax incentives to move production to other countries created by President Trump, and increase investment in U.S. manufacturing to increase production capacity.

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