Trump vs. Twitter: Making sense of the fact-check fight

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday targeting the rights that social media companies have to alter or remove content posted to their platforms. The order came amid an ongoing dispute between the president and Twitter stemming from the company’s decision to append a fact check to two of his tweets falsely connecting mail-in voting with election fraud.

Trump and his allies have accused the social media giant of violating free speech by fact-checking his post. “We cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to hand-pick the...