A senior aide to Donald Trump will attend a meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week, along with other conservative media figures.
Barry Bennett, a senior political adviser to the presumed Republican nominee, will be at the Wednesday meeting at Facebook headquarters, according to a new report Monday.
On Sunday, it was reported that Zuckerberg would hold the meeting with prominent conservatives in response to recent allegations of anti-conservative bias at the social media giant. Among those attending are Washington Examiner columnist Kristen Soltis Anderson.
“The question that needs to be answered Wednesday is: Will Mark see this as an opportunity to free all points of view but at the same time unify America and the world,” Glenn Beck wrote in a Facebook page explaining his reasoning for attending the meeting.
The Senate Commerce Committee is investigating claims by a former Facebook employee following a Gizmodo report that political stories with conservative viewpoints are purposely not included in the social media site’s “trending topics” section. That section is used by many Facebook users to get the news.
However, Facebook has said that is has not found evidence that the allegations are true.
Last month in a speech, Zuckerberg appeared to take a shot at Trump, though he didn’t mention him by name.
“I hear fearful voices for building walls,” Zuckerberg said in his keynote address to the Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco. “Instead of building walls, we should build bridges.”
Trump has made a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and immigration a cornerstone of his presidential campaign.
