CPAC showed how the MAGA movement still can't decide whether its problem is too much Silicon Valley or not enough faves.
Co-founder Daniel Huff, a former Trump appointee, says The Right Stuff is necessary because MAGA types face “hostility on all the regular apps, it’s both from the platforms themselves and from the users.” He gave a personal example. “I was on a date with a girl I’d met on another app, was sitting down, she finds out I work for Trump in the White House,” Huff laments. “She’s not like, ‘Oh that’s cool, let’s talk about it.’ She literally got up and left after two minutes.
But when asked why that demonstrates the necessity of web services for conservatives rather than just more personalized solutions for each customer, Falco’s response was more about values than value: “Everything that we do at this point in our life, speaking in terms of myself and my wife, whatever thing we do is for America First … If America First is not winning on all fronts, either the political, school boards, digital, you name it, then our own economy starts to weaken.
In the absence of direction, CPAC attendees asked for their insights on Big Tech mostly fell back on aD.C. resident and podcaster Suzzanne Monk said she had “experienced a lot of Big Tech censorship” despite having nearly 20,000 Twitter followers, claiming she’s either shadowbanned or facing some other invisible restriction on her account. “We had the same thing with Facebook jail, I did two cycles for telling the truth about the Covid shutdown, the mandates, the CDC,” she says.
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