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Trump joins ‘techlash’ denouncing social media censorship

By Steven Nelson
Published August 26, 2018 4:00am ET
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Trump joins ‘techlash’ denouncing social media censorship
FILE - This April 3, 2017, file photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump's Twitter feed on a computer screen in Washington. President Donald Trump violates the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment when he blocks critics on Twitter for political speech, a judge ruled Wednesday, May 23, 2018. | (J. David Ake/AP)

President Trump has forcefully denounced “censorship” by major tech companies amid reports of possible “shadow-banning” of conservatives and account suspensions for non-mainstream public personalities.

Trump’s frustration has not morphed into a specific policy proposal, but it might as his criticism dovetails with a so-called “techlash” against lightly regulated tech giants.

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