{"id":25285,"date":"2020-05-25T19:43:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T02:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25285"},"modified":"2020-05-25T19:43:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T02:43:26","slug":"trump-weighing-anti-conservative-bias-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25285","title":{"rendered":"Trump weighing anti-conservative bias panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u00a0is considering creating a panel to oversee complaints of bias against conservatives by social media platforms in a move that would likely spark pushback from tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>The plans are still being mulled, people familiar with the matter told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hnnmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpmfnvcn_gckcrrgygdcrmwkktwmn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hnnmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpmfnvcn_gckcrrgygdcrmwkktwmn.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1590533242411000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGmxp-79j7l8xmvhrPvSAfFEgtJbQ\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, but options could include the creation of a formal White House commission on the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeft-wing bias in the tech world is a con\u00adcern that definitely needs to be addressed from our vantage point, and at least exposed [so] that Americans have clear eyes about what we\u2019re dealing with,\u201d a White House official told The Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly railed against social media companies over allegations that they suppress conservative voices, an accusation the platforms protest.<\/p>\n<p>The president accused platforms in 2019 of &#8220;tremendous dishonesty, bias, discrimination and suppression practiced by certain companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not let them get away with it much longer,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u00a0is considering creating a panel&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25286,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285\/revisions\/25286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}