President Donald Trump is again putting pressure on tech firms, telling Reuters in an interview published Monday that it's "very dangerous" when social platforms like Twitter and Facebook self-regulate content.
Major social media firms have for months been answering to claims of conservative censorship. Trump last month called Twitter "discriminatory" and accused the company of "shadow banning" prominent Republicans — a practice commonly cited as the de-emphasizing of certain accounts from search results.
Trump's latest comments come just two weeks after major tech firms suspended or banned conservative radio host Alex Jones for violating community policies. Facebook was among the earliest to remove post by the InfoWars host and did so after Apple took down several of his podcasts. Twitter was later to act, but ultimately suspended Jones for a week.
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