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Exhibit 1157

Executive Order 13925, Preventing Online Censorship (85 Fed. Reg. 34079)

Exhibit 1157 ยท Executive order

Executive Order 13925, Preventing Online Censorship (85 Fed. Reg. 34079)

When large, powerful social media companies censor opinions with which they disagree, they exercise a dangerous power.

Declares it U.S. policy that large platforms that 'censor opinions with which they disagree' should be treated as content creators, and directs executive-branch action on Section 230 and platform practices (agency petition and investigation provisions not read in full here). Revoked by Executive Order 14029 on 14 May 2021.

Source
President Donald J. Trump
Date
28 May 2020 (published 2 June 2020)
Quoted from
Sec. 1, Policy, paragraph 3
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-06-02/pdf/2020-12030.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Finding INF-4.12
Primary record Executive Order 13925 (Trump, 28 May 2020) was revoked by Executive Order 14029 (Biden, 14 May 2021). Executive Order 14149 (Trump, 20 January 2025) directs that no federal officer, employee or agent engage in or facilitate conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen.