White House to hold social media summit amid Trump attacks

The White House will host “digital leaders” for a meeting next month, a spokesperson said today.

The Social Media Summit set for July 11 will focus on the “strategic challenges of today’s online environment,” spokesperson Judd Deere said.

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Deere did not answer questions about who is invited to the summit.

The announcement comes amid President Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on Google, Facebook and Twitter, whom he accuses of bias against him and other conservatives.

Trump today said the federal government should file lawsuits against some of the companies.

“Look, we should be suing Google and Facebook and all that, which, perhaps we will,” the president said during a phone interview on Fox Business.

Trump earlier this month suggested U.S. regulators should levy massive fines against American tech companies, saying “obviously there is something going on in terms of monopoly” in the sector.

A Facebook representative declined to comment, and a Google representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s remarks.