What has emerged is a striking disconnection between the Trump administration and both public and political sentiment concerning the influence and perils of social media. Trump did not always take this approach. During his first term, the administration expressed serious skepticism about the merits of Section 230 immunity, and during the 2024 campaign, Trump himself endorsed the idea of significantly revising Section 230 in order to limit the scope of the platforms’ immunity, but some things have evidently changed since then. Among other things, Trump’s own social media platform has grown; Musk spent hundreds of millions of dollars to get...