The president delivered meandering remarks about big tech’s supposed bias, and an ex-Trump aide almost fist-fought a reporter
of various words—including a pronunciation guide, in case participants were tripped up by “shadow banning”—that have been thrown out by conservatives to explain Big Tech’s supposed bias against them. Sadly, any scholarly tone staffers had hoped to convey was torpedoed by the predictably aimless Trump address that served as the summit’s centerpiece. It was standard-issue Trump: various superlatives and complaints interspersed with odd strolls down the winding, mossy footpaths of his mind.
“A lot of bad things are happening,” Trump noted between digressions about the 2020 Democrats, his spelling skills, and his hair. “We have terrible bias. We have censorship like nobody has any understanding or nobody can believe...They’re playing with a lot of minds, and they’re playing unfairly.” Trump, of course, was taking aim at Facebook, Twitter, and Google, companies he’s frequently complained about. Most of his gripes, including a baseless claim thatis dinging his follower count, are old hat by now, but he did announced that he would be convening a meeting with the heads of the social-media companies in question, something that may have come as a surprise to the companies themselves.
Given the absurdity of the whole event, it’s only fitting that the summit came to an end with a near-brawl between goateed former Trump aide
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