SOCIAL MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump, in a series of early morning Twitter posts on Tuesday [8-28-18], attacked Google for what he claimed was an effort to intentionally suppress conservative news outlets supportive of his administration. Mr. Trump’s remarks — and an additional warning later in the day that Google, Facebook and Twitter ‘have to be careful’ — escalated a conservative campaign against the internet industry that has become more pointed since Apple, Google and Facebook removed content from Alex Jones, a right-wing conspiracy theorist who runs the site InfoWars and has been a vocal supporter of Mr. Trump…The president’s tweets landed at a difficult moment for the tech industry. There is a growing sense across the political spectrum in the United States and in other countries that something must be done to rein in their influence. Executives from many of the largest internet companies will face questions next week at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about their efforts to prevent foreign meddling in the midterm elections in November, a follow-up to congressional hearings held after the 2016 elections. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey are scheduled to testify in front of the committee.”
–Adam Satariano, Daisuke Wakabayashi and Cecilia Kang, “Trump Accuses Google of Burying Conservative News in Search Results,” The New York Times online, August 28, 2018