The Right-Wing Web Goes to the White House

On the Media

• Episode: The Right-Wing Web Goes to the White House
• Website: On the Media
• Feed URL: http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia
• Duration: 00:17:25
• Published: 2019-07-17 18:00

On this show, we’ve often observed that what happens online rarely stays online. In the age of Pizzagate, Trump tweets and Wiki Leaks data dumps, it is obvious that conversations online increasingly dominate, even define, our politics — a fact demonstrated yet again last Thursday when the president invited his favorite online trolls, memers and political operatives to clink champagne glasses in the White House and discuss an alleged anti-conservative bias on social media. Will Sommer, tech reporter for The Daily Beast, wrote about the odd cast of characters and what this social media summit tells us about the president’s 2020 re-election strategy.