Analysis: Trump’s war against social media networks is largely about the fight itself
President Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House on May 14. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 16 at 1:41 PM There’s a quote in an article in the Atlantic from a senior campaign official for President Trump that seems as though it encapsulates this phase of the Trump presidency as surely as “seriously but not literally” served to describe Trump’s assent.
This is probably the appropriate lens through which to view Trump's recent war on social media networks. After his photo was banned, Trump Jr. began collecting other stories of people facing discrimination at the hands of social media companies. This week, the White House weaponized this idea, adding a form to the official White House website asking people to share their stories if they “faced political bias online.” Those choosing to fill out the form are asked for examples of biased behavior on the part of social-media companies — once they assure the White House that they are U.S.
The emergence of this form overlapped with another free-speech move by the Trump administration. In the wake of the massacre of Muslim worshipers at mosques in New Zealand, the U.S. declined to endorse a nonbinding statement targeting online extremism. Eighteen other countries joined Facebook, Twitter and Google in endorsing the statement. The administration cited free speech concerns as a rationale for declining to participate.
There’s been no evidence presented of a broad effort to target conservatives or Republicans on these platforms. It’s hard to see how collecting anecdotes through that White House form will prove any such conspiracy, any more than the administration’s effort to collect stories about crimes committed by immigrants is a robust effort to prove Trump’s case about the dangers of new arrivals to the country.
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