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Far-Right Social Media Personalities Headed To The White House

The Trump administration has invited high-profile, conservative activists and bloggers to the White House for a social media summit. But they did not invite Facebook and Twitter.
President Trump is an avid social media user, but he has also come down hard on Big Tech. He's hosting a social media summit on Thursday, and some of his biggest supporters on social media will attend.

President Trump on Thursday is hosting a social media summit with some of his biggest social media supporters and some lawmakers. Facebook and Twitter have reportedly been excluded from the summit.

This comes at a time when the president, an enthusiastic user of social media — especially Twitter, which he often deploys to rally his base — has been criticizing

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