"I’ve never been a fan of Facebook, as you probably know. I’ve never been a big [Mark] Zuckerberg fan. I think he’s a real problem…

[The New York Times] can’t write something you know to be false and be exempt from being sued. But he [Zuckerberg] can. The idea that it’s a tech company is that Section 230 [of the Communications Decency Act] should be revoked, immediately should be revoked, number one. For Zuckerberg and other platforms.

It should be revoked because [Facebook] is not merely an internet company. It is propagating falsehoods they know to be false, and we should be setting standards not unlike the Europeans are doing relative to privacy...There is no editorial impact at all on Facebook. None. None whatsoever. It's irresponsible. It's totally irresponsible."

Source: New York Times Editorial Board, "Joe Biden," nytimes.com, Jan. 17, 2020

"[W]e [President Trump and his supporters] had a terrible bias [from social media companies]. We have censorship like nobody has any understanding or nobody can believe...

It’s a collusion between the Democrats and the media and social media and these platforms. It’s a disgraceful thing…

Two months ago, we created a new White House tool to report social media bias, censorship, and discrimination...

I’m directing my administration to explore all regulatory and legislative solutions to protect free speech and the free-speech rights of all Americans...

Big tech must not censor the voices of the American people… [T]his new technology is so powerful and so important, and it has to be used fairly."

Source: Donald Trump, "Remarks by President Trump at the Presidential Social Media Summit," whitehouse.gov, July 12, 2019