Trump’s ‘Social Media Summit’ was a celebration of conspiracy theorists

7/14/19
 
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7/10/19:

Trump’s social media summit was a circus. Its aftermath was even worse. This is what happens when the right-wing fringe is emboldened and empowered.

President Donald Trump kicked off his Thursday morning by doing what he does best: tweeting. Amid a sea of missives, which ranged from attacks on the “Fake News Media” to the Mueller Report, he said it would be “a big and exciting day at the White House for Social Media.” It was all a lead-up to his administration’s first “Social Media Summit,” an event that was announced back in June and took place yesterday. Despite being billed as a summit about social media, though, the Trump administration didn’t invite anyone from the two biggest players in the space: Facebook and Twitter. Instead, it brought together people who are under the impression that these tech giants are censoring conservative voices on the internet.

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