Trump signs executive order to regulate social media sites amid Twitter row

US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at increasing the ability of the government to regulate social media platforms. Speaking from the Oval Office ahead of signing the order, Trump said that the move was to "defend free speech from one of the gravest dangers it has faced in American history".

The order comes two days after Twitter labelled two of Trump's tweets as potentially misleading and marks a dramatic escalation by Trump in his war with tech companies as they struggle with the growing problem of misinformation on social media.

On Thursday, Trump acknowledged that