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The White House Trump is reported to have drafted a decree to determine whether online platforms, including Google and Facebook, had violated antitrust laws.
According to Business Insider, which obtained a copy of the proposal, the text states in part: "It is essential that US citizens are protected from the anticompetitive actions of dominant online platforms."
The document also states that federal agencies should use their authorities "to promote competition and ensure that no online platform exercises market power in a manner that adversely affects the marketplace. consumers, including by exercising a bias ".
As such, agencies receive order within 30 days of submitting an action that anyone can "potentially take to protect competition between online platforms and resolve biases related to online platforms" .
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Mark Zuckerberg creator of "Facebook", photographed at Eliot House at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. May 14, 2004. Facebook was created in February 2004, 3 months before this photo.
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Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, participates in a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday 25 January 2007.
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, is attending the Digital Life Design (DLD) conference on January 27, 2009 in Munich, Germany. DLD brings together world leaders and creators of the digital world.
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Mark Zuckerberg, managing director and founder of Facebook, speaks on the third day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, January 30, 2009. This year's meeting, "Shaping the World after the Crisis" runs to # February 1st, 1st.
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Mark Zuckerberg, managing director and founder of Facebook Inc., left with Michael Ovitz, former president of Walt Disney Co., during a lunch break at the Allen & Co. media and technology conference in Sun Valley. , Idaho, United States. Friday, July 10, 2009. The conference will run until Saturday, July 11th.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening speech of the f8 developer conference on April 21, 2010 in San Francisco, California. Zuckerberg launched the developer 's one – day conference, which features sessions on the future of social technologies.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) receives Philip Thomas (R), Cannes Lions CEO Media Person of the Year award at the 57th International Advertising Festival held at the Palais des Festivals on June 22, 2010 in Cannes, France.
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Mark Zuckerberg, President and CEO of Facebook, is holding a press conference at its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., May 26, 2010. Zuckerberg presented Facebook's new privacy control methods.
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ABC News & # 39; Diane Sawyer heads to Facebook with the man behind all this, co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, to show how the site has redefined how a generation organizes and communicates on WORLD NEWS with DIANE SAWYER and NIGHTLINE in July 21st and all ABC News platforms.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiles before speaking at a press conference at Facebook's headquarters on August 18, 2010 in Palo Alto, California. Zuckerberg has announced the launch of Facebook Places, a new application that allows Facebook users to document the places they've visited.
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Tim Kendall, director of product marketing for Facebook Inc., from left to right, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and general manager of Facebook Inc., and Erick Tseng, head of mobile products for Facebook Inc., listen at the conference. A press conference at the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, California, United States, on Wednesday, November 3, 2010. Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, has added features to its mobile software for Android devices. their friends in groups.
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US President Barack Obama speaks at the April 20, 2011 meeting of Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, California, under the watch of CEO Mark Zuckerberg (R).
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Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and general manager of Facebook Inc., left, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, are preparing to answer questions from the public at an event at the ### Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, United States. Friday, March 25, 2011. Facebook Inc., owner of the most popular social networking site, has attracted investors, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., in private securities sales, valuing the company at $ 50 billion. January.
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US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a public meeting on April 20, 2011 at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
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Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook Inc., smiles at the closing session of the e-G8 Internet Forum in Paris on Wednesday, May 25, 2011. The Internet needs the government's participation to reach its full growth potential, said French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Publicis CEO Maurice Levy (R) and Facebook CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg (L) attend the e-G8 press conference at the G8 summit on May 26, 2011 in Deauville, France . Heads of the world's richest countries gather in Deauville, France, for the G8 summit on various issues related to security, aid and trade, including the Arab Spring, nuclear security and security. climate change.
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Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook Inc., attends the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA, on Thursday, July 7, 2011. Media Leaders Meet at Allen & Co. The Sun Valley conference this week is looking to get rid of sites such as the Hulu LLC website and the G4 games channel, in a declining global stock market and slowing economic growth.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) is watching a demonstration of the new Facebook video chat at a press conference at Facebook's headquarters on July 6, 2011 in Palo Alto, California. Zuckerberg has announced new features for Facebook, including video chat and group chat functionality.
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Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook Inc., left, arrives to speak at a press conference at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Monday, November 7, 2011. Zuckerberg said the co-founder of Apple Steve, Steve Jobs has advised on how to focus on his business and build the right management team for the world's largest social network.
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (center) observes the Dallas Mavericks vs. New York Knicks game on February 19, 2012 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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A woman looks at Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, speaking in a promotional video before his IPO, in Washington, DC on May 8, 2012. Facebook, already assured to become one of the most important US companies must convince investors in the next two weeks that this is all the hype. Top leaders of the world's largest social network launched their Wall Street introductory tour, an intense marketing campaign before the launch of the Nasdaq transaction on May 18th.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (R) and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shake hands during their meeting at the Gorky residence near Moscow on October 1, 2012. Zuckerberg was in Moscow today for a government visit the network hopes to strengthen its position on the Russian market.
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Mark Zuckerberg, President and CEO and founder of Facebook Inc., right, and Andrew "Drew" Houston, founder and CEO of Dropbox, are sitting in a car parked at the entrance of the Lodge during the conference on Allen & Co. media and technology in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA, Thursday, July 12, 2012. The press giants gathered at the annual Allen & Co. conference have been looking in recent years on how to deal with technology companies that attract the public to television and cinema.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at an event at Facebook's headquarters on April 4, 2013 in Menlo Park, California. Zuckerberg has announced a new product for Android called Facebook Home.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 11, 2013 in San Francisco, California. The TechCruch Disrupt conference continues until September 11th.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (R) arrives at the White House for an Oval Office meeting with President Barack Obama on March 21, 2014 in Washington, DC. President Obama held the meeting with Internet CEOs to discuss "privacy, technology and intelligence issues".
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Facebook co-founder, president and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at its opening conference on the first day of the Mobile World Congress 2014 at the Fira Gran Via complex on February 24, 2014 Barcelona, Spain. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world's largest communications companies, and many of them unveil their latest phones and gadgets. The show runs from February 24 to February 27.
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Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg (R), the founders of the Breakthrough Award, attend the Breakthrough Award ceremony organized by Seth MacFarlane at NASA's Ames Research Center on November 9, 2014 in Mountain View, California.
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Mark Zuckerberg (L), founder and CEO of Facebook, makes a courtesy call on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) at the official residence of the latter in Tokyo on October 20, 2014. Zuckerberg is present to attend the event. Facebook companies' professional event on Oct. 16 as a "surprise guest."
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Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckenberg, addresses the media after meeting with Indonesian President-elect Joko Widodo in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 13, 2014. American social media founder Zuckerberg participated in the internet campaign. org during his visit to Indonesia. the fourth largest number of Facebook users in the world.
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo (left) with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (R) at the Tanah Abang Market is the largest textile market in Southeast Asia after his meeting on October 13, 2014 in Jakarta, Japan. Indonesia. Mark Zukerberg travels to Indonesia to attend the Internet Developer Summit and meet with government officials. Indonesia is a country that has 240 million inhabitants and has about 60 million active social media users.
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Facebook President and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, at IIT Delhi, October 28, 2015 in New Delhi, India. Addressing about 900 students from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mr. Zuckerberg said that expanding Internet access was critical to the economic development of a country where one billion people are still not online.
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Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister, on the left, and Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., are about to close a meeting at Facebook's head office in Menlo Park, California on Sunday, September 27, 2015. Prime Minister Modi plans to connect 600,000 villages across India using fiber optic cable as part of his "dream" to expand the world's largest economy to $ 20 trillion.
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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan were spotted on February 26, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.
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Mark Zuckerberg, President and CEO and founder of Facebook Inc., speaks at the Oculus Connect 3 event in San Jose, California, USA on Thursday, October 6, 2016. Facebook Inc. is working on a new product from Virtual reality more advanced than its Samsung Gear VR, but does not require connection to a personal computer, as does the Oculus Rift.
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (C) and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (L) present themselves as the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg (2nd R) during a visit to the presidential palace in Abuja on September 2, 2016. The Nigerian President On 2 September, Muhammadu Buhari congratulated Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for inspiring young entrepreneurs during his surprise visit to the West African country, his office said. Zuckerberg, who arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday, met with young entrepreneurs from the IT and Information Technology Centers of the Lagos Mall and Abuja Capital.
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Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook Inc., speaks at the 2016 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Summit in Lima, Peru on Saturday, November 19, 2016. APEC aims to increase the prosperity of the people of the Asia-Pacific by promoting balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative and secure growth and accelerating regional economic integration.
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Actor Vin Diesel (L) and Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of the Breakthrough Prize, perform on stage at the 2017 NASA Ames Research Center Breakthrough Award on December 4, 2016 in Mountain View, California.
(Photo by Kimberly White / Getty Images for the Breakthrough Award)
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the alumni exercises after the 366th beginning exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA on May 25, 2017. REUTERS / Brian Snyder
CAMBRIDGE, MA – MAY 25: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the Alumni Opening Speech at Harvard's 366th Exercise on May 25, 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Zuckerberg studied computer science at Harvard before leaving to move Facebook to Paolo Alto, CA. He returned to campus this week in his former dorm and broadcast his live tour. (Photo by Paul Marotta / Getty Images)
SUN VALLEY, ID – July 14: Mark Zuckerberg, Managing Director and Founder of Facebook Inc., attends the fourth day of the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 14, 2017 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Every July, some of the richest and most powerful businessmen in the world, from media, finance, technology and politics, converge at Sun Valley Resort for a week-long conference. (Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen on stage at a public meeting at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California on September 27, 2015. Photo taken February 27, 2015. REUTERS / Stephen Lam / File Photo
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, delivers a speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on February 22, 2016. REUTERS / Albert Gea
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, speaks at a summit hosted at the Internet.org Summit in New Delhi on October 9, 2014. Facebook Inc., which closed Monday its WhatsApp mobile messaging service, n & # "There is no short-term financial plan for the service," Zuckerberg said Thursday. REUTERS / Adnan Abidi (INDIA – Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiles on the stage before delivering a speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24, 2014. Zuckerberg will make a victory round at the world's largest conference on mobile technologies in Barcelona in a $ 19 billion acquisition of free WhatsApp messaging service. REUTERS / Albert Gea (SPAIN – Tags: BUSINESS TELECOMS)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answers questions from the audience in an interview with Atlantic Magazine in Washington, DC, September 18, 2013. REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES – Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TELECOMS)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg visits the Allen and Co. annual conference at Sun Valley, Idaho Resort, July 11, 2013. REUTERS / Rick Wilking (USA – Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, speaks at a Facebook press conference in Menlo Park, Calif., April 4, 2013. REUTERS / Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES – Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
Facebook CEO and President Mark Zuckerberg speaks at an APEC Leaders Summit meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Extended Summit in Lima. November 19, 2016.
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski opened the summit of leaders of the Asia-Pacific region on November 18, urging them to firmly defend free trade against protectionist tendencies in the United States and Europe. / AFP / Rodrigo BUENDIA (Photo credit: RODRIGO BUENDIA / AFP / Getty Images)
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The project comes as leaders of major social media platforms recently admitted that some political views were mistakenly silenced in an effort to combat online harassment.
Although technology firms have denied a bias against the Conservatives, President Trump has accused platforms of this only, tweeting last month: "Social media totally disproves Republican / conservative voices. For the Trump Administration, we will not let that happen. They reduce the opinions of many people to the RIGHT, while doing nothing to others. "
Bloomberg notes that "the order is in its infancy and has not been overtaken by other government agencies yet," said a White House official.
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