Right. Let's take a side by side look at the two, and see where things stand. https://twitter.com/adamsteinbaugh/status/1266119673898315778
Differences start right off the bat. The statutory reference was dropped, possibly because it added nothing, possibly because the rulemaking nonsense was dropped.

(Should be obvious, but for clarity, the cleaner-looking text will be the official version throughout this thread.)
The differences continue to add. Section 1 was fluff in the draft. It's still fluff in the final, but it's much more aggressive and dangerous fluff - it's now directly attacking social media platforms as "fundamentally un-American and anti-democratic."
That language, in an Executive Order, is disgraceful and beyond the pale.
The 2nd Paragraph goes on to challenge the application of the CDA to social media much more strongly and much more directly than the first, staking out a position, as official United States policy, that is directly and explicitly contradictory to the laws of the United States.
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