By Cristiano Lima and Steven Overly
POLITICO
September 25, 2018
Such GOP accusations of systematic bias — made without evidence and denied by the companies — have picked up pace heading into the midterm elections.
President Donald Trump has embraced the conservative grievances in recent months. He’s lashed out at Google, saying the company manipulates news search results to portray him in a bad light, and he’s targeted Twitter with claims that it “shadow bans” conservatives, reducing the visibility of their accounts. In an interview last month, Trump suggested Amazon, Facebook and Google are in a “very antitrust situation,” though he declined to say whether they should be broken up.