This is a bonus edition of the Daily Signal Podcast. I'm Kate Trinko and today we're going to talk to Klon Kitchen, a technology expert at the Heritage Foundation,

about President Trump's new controversial social media executive order.

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rating on Apple Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe. Now, on to our

interview. On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on social media.

Joining us today to discuss is Klon Kitchit, the Director of the Center for Technology Policy

at the Heritage Foundation.

Klon, thanks for coming on.

It's my pleasure.

So first for background, President Trump signed this executive order

after two of his tweets were fact-checked by Twitter this week.

The first time that Twitter had ever fact-checked tweets,

and it was about Trump's tweet regarding mail-in ballots and voter fraud.

So, before we get into that executive order that President Trump just signed,

what are your thoughts on the fact check and Twitter's decision to do that?

Yeah, so I thought it was ill-advised.

One, on the particular tweet that they fact checked the president on, he had made an assertion that there was a correlation between

wide-scale mail-in balloting and election fraud. And a number of heritage papers have demonstrated that this is the case and so just on a fact

basis Twitter was off the mark. But more fundamentally they they injected themselves into a political conversation and they

ultimately established for themselves a standard that they can't possibly keep. So they identified the president's tweet as being misleading.

Well, what about when someone on the left side of the political spectrum says that

conservative tax policies going to kill minorities.

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