Trump Says He’ll Summon Companies After Social Media ‘Summit’
- Facebook, Twitter not invited to Thursday’s White House event
- Polls say Republicans think tech platforms favor liberal views
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President Donald Trump said he’d summon social media companies for a meeting at the White House to discuss conservative grievances about alleged political bias on their platforms, and that he had directed his administration to explore methods to protect online speech.
“We will ask representatives of the major social media platforms to join me at the White House over the next month,” Trump told his audience at an event Thursday the White House billed as a “social media summit.”