This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Saturday, May 30th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The president and at least four US senators want to take Twitter down a peg,

and by extension all the big social media

platforms accused of bias against self-styled conservatives. The president this

week offered up an executive order to begin trying to bring social media to heal.

According to Cato's Matthew Feeney, these politicians misunderstand or at least

misrepresent federal law and the First Amendment.

The President of the United States has been in a bit of a row

with Twitter and how they've been treating him especially recently.

This comes sort of at the end of sort of a long-standing, I guess, claim by many mainstream

self-described conservatives that sites like Twitter, like Facebook and others are censoring

conservative speech. And three U.S US senators in particular, that's Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Josh

Holly have all said in different ways that they want to crack down in a sense on these platforms for how they do business and sometimes

it's wrapped up in the First Amendment, other times it's more

technocratic in terms of how they want to approach it, but give me your sense of

what these guys are saying and how much water it holds.

Right. Well, there's a lot to unpack and we could probably have a whole day of commentary

on everything incorrect.

Prominent people have been saying recently,

but I think it's fair to say that at the heart of what

these particular lawmakers are saying

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