05/29/2020 05:16 CDT

TRUMP GOES AFTER TWITTER AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA GIANTS, THREATENING THEIR PROTECTED STATUS; CBS NEWS CUTS STAFFERS

TODAY’S TOP TEN

DID TRUMP TRUMP TWITTER?

PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER calling for removal of social media firms’ liability protections. Fox News.

• Trump knows exactly what he’s doing in taking on Twitter. The Post-Millennial.
• Twitter playing with fire. Sohrab Ahmari.

TEXAS AG: TRUMP IS RIGHT AND TWITTER “fact check” is wrong — mail-in ballot fraud is real problem. Fox News.

LIBERAL WEBSITE FRETS THAT JUDICIAL WATCH is cleaning up voter rolls in Pennsylvania. The Intercept.

NEARLY HALF OF ALL CORONAVIRUS DEATHS OCCURRED in nursing homes and similar facilities. Forbes.

NYT REMOVES FAKE ANECDOTE ABOUT MEDICAL intern dying of coronavirus. Breitbart.

SWING VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY WANT AMERICAN businesses to hire American workers. Breitbart.

BID TO OUST SMEAR GROUP SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER as Amazon’s charity arbiter defeated. Daily Signal.

JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S IT GUY CLAIMS HE SAW Bill Clinton on private island. Hot Air.

CBS NEWS CUTS 75 STAFFERS IN PANDEMIC-RELATED cost reduction. Page Six.

YOUTUBE PULLS CONTROVERSIAL MICHAEL MOORE film that exposed green energy scam. PJ Media.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• It’s time to stop pretending Twitter is neutral. John Daniel Davidson.
• How media sensationalism, Big Tech bias extended lockdowns. Yinon Weiss.
• Florida a success story, despite false media. Michael Hendrix.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• California restaurant defies state order. PragerU.
• Biden confuses D-Day with Pearl Harbor. Free Beacon.
• Coronavirus brainwashing. Vernon Coleman.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• Kayaker escapes giant shark off California coast. North Coast Journal.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@SenTedCruz) Big Tech is the single biggest threat facing our democracy. We know in 2016 social media companies had an outsized role in influencing our presidential election. With another presidential election months away, we need to take action now to curtail that influence. Tweet.
• (@dbongino) The lockdown-liberal governors are doing incalculable damage to their state’s economies & their citizens. Supply chains are complex and interconnected, and the blue state businesses are going to left out as the rest of the country rebuilds and grows again. It’s a genuine tragedy. Tweet.

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• GRENELL SAYS THEY FOUND SUSPECTED LEAKER at ODNI and referred case to DOJ. Washington Times.

LIBERTY DAILY LEAD AT TIME OF EMAIL 

• PRESIDENT TRUMP DESTROYS ‘VERY WEAK RADICAL LEFT MAYOR’ OF MINNEAPOLIS, JACOB FREY, FOR ALLOWING VIOLENT RIOTERS TO RAVAGE CITY, THREATENS TO BRING IN NATIONAL GUARD Liberty Daily.