Facebook can't get a break from DC conservatives

Facebook, despite years of outreach to conservatives, remains a punching bag for the right. Facebook’s lukewarm relationship with the right has complicated its search for DC allies to help fend off new privacy regulations. On April 24, the company announced it had replaced the head of its Washington office with Kevin Martin, former Republican Federal Communications Commission chairman. Facebook is bracing for another beating — this time, from some conservatives at a hearing featuring pro-Trump video stars Diamond and Silk, who say Facebook discriminated against their content. The internet companies aren't sending representatives to the hearing. One longtime conservative tech policy staffer likened Facebook's face-off with conservatives to trench warfare, "very much like on the Western Front": "In my mind I don’t see much movement in terms of right-of-center groups coming out of their trenches to welcome Facebook, or vice versa.”