Trump says Twitter and other social media platforms are 'colluding' to silence Republicans and pledges to 'look into' why his own social media manager was blocked from responding to his Facebook followers By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com Published: 19:12 GMT, 19 March 2019 | Updated: 19:12 GMT, 19 March 2019 Viewcomments President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms are discriminating against conservatives and other Republicans, and accused the companies of colluding with each other to limit online speech. 'We use the word "collusion" very loosely all the time,' Trump said during a joint press conference with Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, 'and I will tell you there is collusion with respect to that because something has to be going on.' Trump's White House social media manager Dan Scavino complained Monday that Facebook was preventing him from interacting with people who leave comments on his personal page. And the president's son Donald Trump Jr. wrote in an op-ed that 'Big Tech’s censorship of conservatives' has become 'ever more flagrant and overt.' The president appeared to agree. 'It seems to be if they're conservative, if they're Republicans, if they're in a certain group, there's discrimination, and big discrimination, and I see it absolutely on Twitter and Facebook ... and others,' he said Tuesday. 'We have to do something,' the president said. 'Things are happening, names are taken off, people aren't getting through. You've heard the same complaints,' he said, referring to what conservatives have called 'shadow-banning. Trump claimed that executives at social media companies harbor 'hatred' in many cases, toward 'a certain group of people that happen to be in power, that happen to have won the election.' 'I do think we have to get to the bottom of it,' the president added, without suggesting any actions he might take. He also renewed his attacks on traditional media, including Tv networks and their newscasts. Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility