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Trump vows to look into Facebook move on Scavino

 

BY ZACK BUDRYK - 03/19/19 12:23 PM EDT

 

President Trump vowed on Tuesday to “look into” Facebook’s blocking of a staffer’s account.

 

Trump made the pledge in a tweet on Twitter, writing “I will be looking into this!”

 

Trump social media manager Dan Scavino on Monday posted a screenshot on Facebook showing the social media network temporarily blocking him from public comments on one of his posts, saying some of them had been reported as spam. Scavino accused the social network of “silencing” him in his post, which drew more than 1,000 comments.

 

“I can tell you that we are currently looking into the situation. Thanks,” a Facebook spokesperson told The Hill Monday evening. Trump earlier on Tuesday tweeted that Facebook, Google and Twitter were “on the side of the radical left Democrats” although he did not allude to Scavino in the earlier tweet.

 

The accusations come after several days of criticism of the tech giant from all sides, including claims it took inadequate action to remove a livestreamed video of a mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand. Earlier this morning, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), chair of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law, called for an antitrust investigation of Facebook in a New York Times op-ed.

 

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, sued Twitter and some of its users on Monday for more than $250 million.

 

He said Twitter has censored conservative voices by “shadow banning” them, which he said may have impacted the midterm elections in which Republicans lost the House.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/434732-trump-vows-to-look-into-facebook-move-on-scavino