YouTube CEO responds to Trump order threatening web protections

YouTube boss Susan Wojcicki responded to US President Donald Trump’s executive order on Thursday, saying the online video giant supports a wide variety of opinions and runs its service in a neutral way.

The order calls for new regulations to limit liability protections enjoyed by social-media companies if they “engage in censoring or any political conduct.” It came after a tussle between Trump and Twitter Inc, which flagged posts from the president with a fact-checking label for the first time earlier this week.

Wojcicki was being interviewed by Carlyle Group Inc co-Founder David Rubenstein on Bloomberg Television while the White House was readying the final order. Drafts of the edict had already circulated.