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The meeting is about "the health of the public conversation on Twitter," according to an internal Twitter email obtained by Motherboard, which is apparently the fancy way of saying "the president is working the refs with bullshit."
Conservatives have spent the last few years deploying against tech platforms the same bad-faith "bias" criticism they've used for years against the media. It works.
I wrote in 2016 about how Facebook’s decision to bow to a conservative pressure campaign turned its news feed into a misinformation factory: mediamatters.org/blog/2017/12/2…
Reminder: Last year President Trump attacked Google after seeing Diamond and Silk on Lou Dobbs' show baselessly claim the company is is engaged in “tyranny” and “political lynching” to prevent people from learning the truth about “our beautiful president.” mediamatters.org/blog/2018/08/2…
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