Trump accuses social media companies of 'terrible bias' at White House summit decried by critics

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

President Trump assailed Facebook, Google and Twitter on Thursday for exhibiting “terrible bias” and silencing his supporters at a White House “social media summit” that critics chastised for giving a prominent stage to some of the internet’s most controversial, incendiary voices.

For Trump, the conference represented his highest profile broadside yet against Silicon Valley after months of accusations that tech giants censor conservative users and websites. In doing so, the president also sought to rally his widely followed online allies, whom he described as “journalists and influencers” that together can reach roughly half a billion people, entering the 2020 presidential election.

“Some of you are extraordinary. The crap you think of is unbelievable,” Trump said.

Trump delivered his winding diatribe against Facebook, Google and Twitter — charges of political bias that all three companies long have denied — at an event at the White House featuring Republican lawmakers, GOP campaign strategists and social-media meme makers, a move that led some critics to express dismay that the president actually aimed to use the policy summit as a re-election push.

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[Takket]

1. Quite the opposite

These social media companies gave a platform for YEARS to racists and Nazis before only recently beginning to crack down on SOME of them. The fact that the terms racist, Nazi and conservative are essentially interchangeable now is the fault of the right wing, not anyone else.

[Fla Dem]

4. Exactly. well said.

Trump allowed Pandora's Box to be opened and all the racists, neo-nazi, alt-right assholes who have lived in the shadows, were given the ok to step out into the light to spread their filth.

[mathematic]

6. No it's not the opposite

These companies are strongly biased against most of the right wing agenda.

They also have a bias in favor of "free speech", which is a longstanding bias among internet movers-and-shakers. These two things have come into conflict in new and catastrophic ways over the last 5 years but the conflict is as old as liberalism. Where and how do we draw the line between unfettered communication and community responsibility with platforms that allow people to mass communicate with each other?

If these companies were biased in favor of the right wing they would look more like fox news, infowars, 4chan, and gab. Black Lives Matter was a hashtag before it was a movement.

[Chakaconcarne]

2. He is upset because Social Media is discriminating against his bots......

[Roy Rolling]

3. Sending thoughts and prayers

Have Infowars and the rest looked into MySpace?

[ancianita]

5. It must mean that he knows the Russians are backing off. Let him hang.We've got a nation to build.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. "The crap you think of is unbelievable" - indeed. problem is so many actually believe it.

Right wing is now the snake oil party.

[jcgoldie]

8. Trump accusing facebook of bias against him...

...after they were instrumental in getting him elected is eerily reminiscent of how he turned on Jim Comey! Always the biggest bully and always the biggest victim!

[BlueIdaho]

9. Dear Fatso

Your 15 minutes of fame are over.

[certainot]

10. that bias is a regular meme on rw radio, and extension of the 'liberal media' and a

standard defense against truth telling and calling bullshit on them.

most of them like trump are adamant about it because they live in talkradiostan's alternate reality and actually believe it

[SWBTATTReg]

11. His polls are sinking...his numbers across the board against multiple democratic candidates...

are weak...his childish temper tantrums won't change a single poll number. His constant, idiotic rambling doesn't help either. It just goes to solidifies opposition to him in greater and greater numbers. This country doesn't need a whiner like he is, and people are getting sick and tired of him.

No wonder he's griping about tweet responses and crap, he's overdone it so much, people are not paying attention to him any longer, it's like crying wolf! a thousand times...

Added...maybe twitter will get tired of him bashing them and take him down/off the platform for foul language and / foul behavior.

[0rganism]

12. credit where it's due: "The crap you think of is unbelievable"

when he's right, he's right

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Oh boo hoo

[Firestorm49]

14. Spoken like the fascist that he is.