Trump Slams Social Media Companies After Facebook Bans

Trump Slams Social Media Companies After Facebook Bans
President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House on April 27, 2019 in Washington. Pete Marovich/Getty Images
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STERLING, Virginia—President Donald Trump criticized social media companies after Facebook banned a number of extremist figures, declaring that he was “monitoring and watching, closely!!”

Trump, who tweeted and re-tweeted complaints Friday and Saturday, said he would “monitor the censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS on social media platforms.” He has previously asserted that social media companies exhibit bias against conservatives, something the companies have rejected as untrue despite multiple occasions where platforms have needed to apologize for mistakes in their automated systems.