Trump claims he’s losing social media followers because of Google, Facebook, and Twitter censorship
This afternoon, President Donald Trump once again accused Google, Facebook, and Twitter of vaguely defined censorship that “may not be legal,” but said “we’re just going to see” whether the platforms should be regulated. The president was responding to a reporter’s question about a series of tweets from yesterday, where Trump called Google search results “rigged” against him. As evidence of platform bias, Trump broadly cited cases where he had lost followers on social media accounts, saying, “I can tell you when things are different.”
Trump said yesterday that Google was “taking advantage of a lot of people,” and that Google, Facebook, and Twitter were treading on “troubled territory.” He got slightly more specific today, mostly in the...