Far-Right Web Personalities Claim WH Invited Them To 'Social Media Summit'

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Far-Right Web Personalities Claim WH Invited Them To ‘Social Media Summit’ (Not included: facebook and Twitter)

By Matt Shuham at TPM

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-right-wing-social-media-summit-carpe-donktum-ben-garrison-bill-mitchell

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A bevy of far-right internet personalities has claimed in recent days to have received invitations to the White House’s “Social Media Summit” on Thursday, further blurring the line between the mainstream Republican Party and fringe figures that cater to its farthest edges.

One of the people who claims they’ve been invited to the event has published anti-Semitic cartoons. Another has promoted the bizarre and wide-ranging QAnon conspiracy theory. A third is a celebrated meme-r whose creations have been tweeted by President Trump.

The White House does not seem eager to confirm the invitees.

Declining to confirm an actual invite list, White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere said in an email, “This event will bring together digital leaders for a robust conversation on the opportunities and challenges of today’s online environment.”


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[srobertss]

1. I was thinking about posting this,

did a search, and found you were ahead of me. Somehow, this sends more shivers down my spine than many of their more blatant misdeeds. And Facebook and Twitter were not invited,reportedly. Maybe it was the 5 truly creepy political cartoons this article included, but it raised the hair on the back of my neck.

Is this to get ready for the 2020 campaign? Bring all the disinformers together to strategize?

[applegrove]

2. Those creepy cartoons were too much. Meanwhile a cartoonist in canada

was fired from his job for depucting Trump as 'playing through' while migrants lay dead on the shore of the river. It really is pretty fascist isn't it.

[tanyev]

3. Sounds like a propaganda summit for Trump's 2020 campaign.