GOP thinks bashing tech companies will rally base

[DonViejo]

Republican lawmakers and operatives are hammering the message that social media and internet companies are biased against conservatives.

By ASHLEY GOLD 07/08/2018 06:58 AM EDT

Republicans are turning their grievances about biased tech companies into a rallying message for a difficult election year.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel are among the GOP leaders vocally complaining about a host of Silicon Valley slights against conservatives, ranging from Facebook’s stripping of ad revenue from the video-blogging duo Diamond and Silk to a Google search result that paired the California GOP with "Nazism."

So is Brad Parscale, who ran Donald Trump's winning digital campaign in 2016 — but who now, as the reelection campaign manager for the social-media-loving president, says it’s past time for a reckoning by companies like Facebook and Twitter.

Conservative complaints about Silicon Valley have sprouted in the past year, echoing the frequent GOP accusations that a liberal news media and a pervasive bureaucratic “deep state” are conspiring against Trump’s agenda. But the anti-tech message appears to be accelerating as Republicans fight to fire up their base and counter a feared Democratic "blue wave" in November.

Meanwhile, tech executives are scrambling to prove they don’t harbor anti-conservative prejudice. Facebook has held at least two previously unreported meetings with conservative groups and digital experts since April, and it launched an audit of potential bias with the assistance of former Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl and the law firm Covington & Burling.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/08/republicans-midterm-social-media-bias-strategy-659634

[dalton99a]

1. Trump rose to power thanks to Twitter and Facebook - and the Russian troll factories

[Liberalhammer]

2. Playing the refs

Old tactic the Republican nazis know it works.