Trump’s absurd lawsuits against social media

Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are not state actors. It was Trump filling the role of state actor at the time of the social media bans. The First Amendment does not compel private entities to hand the government a megaphone; it constrains the government from requiring private entities to engage, or not engage, in speech. As NetChoice’s Steve DelBianco points out, “The First Amendment is designed to protect the media from the President, not the other way around.”