WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration, which has had sometimes strained relations with high-technology companies, will meet with top tech executives next week for a roundtable discussion on innovation, several companies attending said on Thursday.
Chief executives expected to participate include Microsoft Corp's
President Donald Trump has had many run-ins with technology companies since he took office, including his accusations without evidence of bias by Alphabet's Google, Facebook Inc
"I think that Google and Facebook and Twitter ... treat conservatives and Republicans very unfairly," Trump told reporters at the White House in August.
Next week, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing with Pichai to discuss Republican allegations of bias against conservatives - a charge Google has denied.
The roundtable, to be held next Thursday, will also have Blackstone Group LP
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The White House declined immediate comment. Blackstone declined to comment and Carnegie Mellon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
White House adviser Larry Kudlow said in early October that the administration was working on such a meeting.
"We're going to have a little conference - the president will preside over it - we will have big internet companies, big social media companies, search companies," Kudlow said at the time. Also attending, he added, would be "some who are dissatisfied with those companies."
Trump met in June 2017 with the heads of 18 U.S. technology companies including Apple Inc
(Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty and Peter Cooney)
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