Trump approved a decree on social networking companies on May 28, calling it "a move to protect American speech freedom".

"A small number of social networking companies are holding large amounts of public and private communications in the US. They can freely censor, restrict, edit, hide, change any form of communication between

The White House boss said it was an action to "protect the right to freedom of speech against one of the most serious threats in US history".

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