What did it say about the White House that an outspoken racist was invited to represent conservative social media? The White House is hosting a social media summit on Thursday, and invited some of the internet’s loudest conservative trolls and racist carnival barkers to attend ― but if you’ve been paying any attention, the circus has already begun. The White House’s social media summit and its guest list were developed based on the idea that conservatives are being unfairly banned or otherwise silenced by the social media networks they use. But given the opportunity to thumb its nose at such terms, the White House banned one prominent conservative voice anyway. “They want the benefits of social media with none of the civility.”Meanwhile, the White House did not invite representatives from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Google.

Source: Huffington Post July 10, 2019 18:11 UTC