White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday said President Trump is “very concerned” about people “losing followers” in response to a question about his meeting the day before with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
“The president’s very concerned about what he sees as losing followers or people being blocked from certain actions,” Conway told reporters outside of the White House. “That’s obvious. Some of you have bothered to cover it.”
{mosads}Trump during the Oval Office meeting with Dorsey on Tuesday reportedly raised concerns that he has been losing Twitter followers, one element of his ongoing allegations that social media platforms – including Twitter – discriminate against conservatives, according to The Washington Post and The Daily Beast.
Dorsey reportedly told Trump that high-profile accounts routinely lose followers as Twitter removes bots and spam accounts from its platform, adding that he himself has lost followers in those purges.
“They had a very productive conversation about keeping the media platforms open for 2020,” Conway said.
Trump has joined the chorus of conservatives who claim the country’s largest social media companies routinely undermine and censor right-wing voices. The companies have pushed back on the allegations, saying that there is little evidence for them and they do not discriminate based on any political ideology.