WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump has issued an executive order aimed at curbing government censorship, marking one of his first official actions since returning to the White House. The order seeks to prevent the government from limiting free speech, a move Trump said is intended to "stop the weaponization" of speech.

President Trump issued an executive order purporting to end government censorship. Critics scoffed, saying his actions do just the opposite.

Will Oremus, tech news analysis writer for The Washington Post, says conservative lawmakers have always viewed moderating or fact-checking online content as censorship — even though the Supreme Court ruled last year that either is a form of protected speech.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to stop “government censorship,” a sweeping action that could chill years of efforts to combat the proliferation of false information online.

Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

President Donald Trump's new executive order on social media was immediately condemned in a statement by Nina Jankowicz, the president of the watchdog group American Sunlight Project, who called it a "direct assault on reality.

WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump has issued an executive order aimed at curbing ... and "malinformation." Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently commented on the issue: "We’re going ...

All these comments from so-called TikTok 'refugees' showed up on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's most recent Instagram post, which was posted shortly after TikTok went dark for American users on Saturday night. The video of a surfing Zuckerberg, which was initially filled with Instagram users lauding his skills, was quickly overrun with angry users.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.

Yes, indeed! What Brad Garlinghouse of Ripple Labs called “Gensler’s reign of terror” ended with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler’s resignation upon President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Donald Trump’s official order to end “government censorship” sounds solid – free speech is vital in democracies, after all. But it’s not so simple, experts say.

Some GOP lawmakers are grumbling over President Trump’s “Kitchen Cabinet” of billionaire allies such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who