Hill Campaign Reporter: GOP Will Claim Tech Bias to Rally Base

Reid Wilson, a campaign reporter for The Hill said Wednesday that Republicans will use accusations that technology companies are biased against conservatives to energize their base.

Google, along with social media companies Facebook and Twitter, have come under fire from conservatives for allegedly having an anti-conservative bias. The companies have denied these claims.

"This has become an interesting tension point within the Republican Congress on Capitol Hill," Wilson told Hill.TV's "What America's Thinking." "There's a faction of very conservative members of the Freedom Caucus who want to make an example out of Twitter and Facebook, and the rest of them.

"And there is more of an establishment faction led by Congressman Greg Walden of Oregon," he added. "He wants to talk more broadly about their relationship with the American economy, and therefore with conservative ideas.

"So, there are these fascinating factions, within both the tech side and the Republicans on Capitol Hill, who are trying to make this as big a deal as they can before the midterms to fire up their own base."

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