President Trump accuses social media giants of bias towards 'radical left Democrats'

President Donald Trump accused tech companies, including Facebook, Twitter and Google, of promoting "the Radical Left Democrats." "Facebook, Google and Twitter, not to mention the Corrupt Media, are sooo on the side of the Radical Left Democrats. But fear not, we will win anyway, just like we did before! #MAGA," the president wrote online. Beyond general accusations of bias, President Trump and other conservatives have frequently claimed that social media companies are "shadow banning" conservative users by silencing or minimizing their accounts amid efforts to purge their platforms from bots and fraudulent accounts. The President also responded to an opinion article reporting that the President’s social media manager Dan Scavino Jr. was temporarily blocked from Facebook. Scavino posted a screenshot on his Facebook page of a notification he got saying that some his comments had been reported as spam. “I will be looking into this! #StopTheBias,” President Trump wrote, without elaborating what steps he might take. Facebook in a statement said that it has a policy to “cap the amount of identical, repetitive activity coming from one account in a short period of time, such as @mentioning people” as a way to curb posting from automated bots. The company said that is what accidentally happened to Scavino and apologized to him.