Professor Olivier Sylvain shared his expert opinion on President Trump’s recent executive order targeting social media companies with Adweek, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, and The Wrap.
MarketWatch
Fordham law professor Olivier Sylvain added that Twitter has “lawfully and, in my opinion, rightfully, chosen to flag lawful user content that it finds hateful and opprobrious.”
“These flagging decisions are especially appropriate with regards to misinformation about important public health matters, including preventive treatments for COVID-19 and other dangerous viruses, as well as our voting and electoral processes generally,” Sylvain said in an email.
Bloomberg
“These are editorial decisions that are in the heartland of what we think is protected speech,” Sylvain said. “Even threatening it from the White House, that should be deeply troubling to anybody.”