The killing of Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel’s recently revoked cancellation and the organized targeting of “The View” point to a troubling shift in content moderation. Instead of safety, transparency and individual liberty, calls for moderation are aimed at censoring any language that challenges MAGA ideology.
This isn’t the Trump administration’s first foray into content moderation. President Trump previewed his digital censorship playbook with his “Woke AI” executive order. Built upon the conservative crusade against so-called “woke-ism,” the order frames itself as defending neutrality in AI. But it represents something more dangerous: government control over truth and information in the most transformative technology to date.
The executive order’s rhetoric conflates bias correction — th