Trump's war on Big Tech is getting even dumber

So the “bias” charge. Again. And expect Trump to repeat the tired accusation now that Twitter says it will label politician tweets, including those from Trump, that violate its rules but aren’t taken down due to public interest consideration. But as is typical with these accusations, the more you look, the less you find. What Trump was specifically referring to apparently was a hidden-camera video recording from the right-wing Project Veritas. In it, Jen Gennai, Google’s head of responsible innovation, argues that Washington shouldn’t break up Google “because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that.”

Now what Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe seemingly wants viewers to think is that Gennai is referring to secret Google efforts to prevent Trump’s re-election, maybe by messing with search results — as Trump has previously charged the company with doing. Far more likely is that Gennai was referring to company efforts to prevent foreign election interference. She offered that explanation in a Medium blog post, and as The Verge’s Russell Brandom points out, it syncs with the anti-breakup arguments Big Tech have been making publicly about how their vast resources are necessary to combat these state-led attacks.