President Trump Threatens Investigation of Twitter

President Donald Trump threatened a government investigation of Twitter. The President tweeted on the morning of July 26, "Twitter 'SHADOW BANNING' prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints."  That appears to be a reaction to conservative group Project Veritas' undercover video purporting to have uncovered such "shadow banning" of conservative political thought by Twitter, based on a conversation with someone identified as a former Twitter software engineer recorded in a causal setting without his knowledge.  Project Veritas is dedicated to exposing the so-called "deep state," the idea that there is a "shadow" government cabal working to manipulate policy against the interests of the Trump Administration.