Much has written about accusations that the progressive tech giants (a.k.a. Big Data or Big Social) are censoring politically conservative, populist, or libertarian websites and individuals (or those perceived as harboring leanings of that nature) through methods such as the algorithm changes, or shadow banning, throttling, de-platforming, and de-monetization, or artificially trending or not trending certain content.

Mainstream influencers on the right have from time to time also seen their accounts suspended for transgressions pursuant to standards that don’t seem to apply to their left-wing counterparts.

Parenthetically, Big Social lined up behind the now-repealed net neutrality but as far as content neutrality, not so much.

A study of 50 online publishers released in March by The Western Journal concluded that modifications to Facebook’s news feeds sent conservative publishers’ reader engagement into a nose dive far more than liberals. The Outline came up with similar findings after Facebook apparently adjusted the news feeds to de-emphasize content from news outlets.

A recent Pew Research Center poll indicates that a  majority of Americans across the ideological spectrum perceive that the big tech platforms are censoring political views with which they disagree.

While praising Facebook as a key to the Trump presidential election victory, digital guru and 2020 Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale explained the following to the Bloomberg news agency.

“Facebook is a liberal company…that has an inherent bias…that is based in a place that is probably extremely biased…their employees have biases, and those decisions probably go into every line of code they write and everything they do…I think the inherent bias in those companies is significant.”

In the interview with a Russia-obsessed Bloomberg reporter (is there another kind of journalist these days?),  Parscale also implied that unlike the other platforms, he thinks that Facebook is trying to take steps to eliminate liberal bias and that he intends to hold all the major tech firms accountable for fairness.

Parscale has sat down with Facebook officials personally to discuss various issues including the application programming interface. Watch the interview clip below.

In recent Capitol Hill testimony, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Silicon Valley is an extremely very left-leaning place, but denied that his company is censoring conservatives.

Apart from Trump’s twitter feed, Parscale implied that Twitter is inconsequential  as a persuasion vehicle.

This may be the result of Twitter being dominated by a far-left social justice thought-police cohort ready to pounce on any opinion that doesn’t fit within the progressive agenda.

Parscale also revealed that Google-owned YouTube will play a bigger role in the 2020 Trump reelection campaign than int 2016. As Parscale noted in the interview, YouTube has, however, also come under criticism for liberal bias in terms of of the way it indexes conservative-leaning videos.

Yesterday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Aspen Security Forum that China (not Russia) is the most significant threat to the U.S. in terms of economic espionage as well as traditional espionage.

In a Capitol Hill hearing about online content filtering on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) asked three robotic, talking-points-memorizing Facebook, Google, and Twitter officials about nations other than Russia that might have meddled in U.S. elections. See clip below.

At that hearing, a Facebook official admitted “that Russian election interference was limited to ‘a few thousand’ of two billion posts analyzed, Breitbart News reported.

You may recall that Gohmert blew up the Peter Strzok hearing last week when he alluded to the witness’s extra-curricular activities.