Twitter reacted later in the day by tagging both with a "Get the facts about mail-in ballots" link, leading to a collection of mainstream media articles denouncing the president's claim as false. Trump denounced the move as an act of interference in the 2020 presidential election.

One of the problems with this, is that the supposedly false statement is a non-falsifiable opinion, pointed Will Chamberlain, publisher of the conservative magazine Human Events:

Donald Trump Junior reacted to the news:

The Trump 2020 campaign also weighed in, revealing that it pulled all advertising from Twitter "months ago" due to the platform's "clear political bias."

"Partnering with the biased fake news media 'fact checkers' is only a smoke screen Twitter is using to try to lend their obvious political tactics some false credibility," said campaign manager Brad Parscale.

President Trump has long used Twitter as his social medium of choice, leveraging the platform to directly reach US voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election and bypassing the mainstream media that overwhelmingly supported his opponent. After the election, the media and Democrats put enormous pressure on social platforms to censor, ban, expel and "fact-check" opinions they disagreed with.

Tuesday's oped by a liberal New York Times columnist declared that "Twitter must cleanse the Trump stain."

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"The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google," Trump wrote on Twitter. "The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation."

The president shared a video of a speech from conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, who stood up for fellow conservatives who were removed from social media platforms because of their beliefs.

"Thank you Michelle!" he wrote.

The order explicitly calls out Big Tech companies for openly working with the Chinese Communist Party and its military.

The order pursues the long-addressed "Section 230" argument protecting Big Tech firms.

The order also calls large social media platforms "the functional equivalent of a traditional public forum" and states these firms "should not infringe on protected speech".

The White House reveals in the EO that they received "over 16,000 complaints of online platforms censoring or otherwise taking action against users based on their political viewpoints". The complaints system has been online since May 2019.

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Disclaimer: As a draft document, this EO may have been altered since this version was created.

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On Thursday, the Russian Health Ministry stated on its website that hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness and safety in the treatment of coronavirus is continually being monitored, but the ministry is not taking any steps towards outlawing it. This decision is in sharp contrast to moves made by some European countries which, due to safety concerns, have completely stopped the prescription of the drug to fight the coronavirus.

"Several drugs are used to treat patients with Covid-19," a ministry statement said. "Among these drugs is hydroxychloroquine, which, due to its anti-inflammatory effect and effect on the immune system, has been used for decades to treat malaria, rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus."

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A bottle and pills of Hydroxychloroquine

According to the Health Ministry, recommendations to use HCQ have come from various foreign studies confirming its effectiveness, and it has been included in several national and international clinical guidelines, including in Russia. As it stands, Russian doctors are able to give the drug to patients who provide informed consent, taking into account potential side effects and risk factors.

"According to the results of monitoring the safety of hydroxychloroquine drugs during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Russian Federation, there were no fatal outcomes associated with rhythm disturbance in patients with HCQ," the ministry said.

Notably deaths from coronavirus in Russia have been extremely low when compared to many of those countries that have banned HCQ.

The drug, most often used to treat malaria, rose to prominence on March 19 when US President Donald Trump promoted the medication as a potential treatment for Covid‑19. On May 25, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it would be suspending its hydroxychloroquine testing out of what it called an "abundance of caution." HCQ was just one part of a more extensive study of experimental coronavirus treatments.