Late last month, Donald Trump angrily tweeted about a burgeoning enemy in the liberal elite plot against him and his deplorables. “Google search results for ‘Trump News’ shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD,” he wrote, furious that “Fake CNN is prominent [and] Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out.” The practice, he warned, “will be addressed.” And in short order, National Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters that the White House was “taking a look” at regulating Google. With the tide of anti-Google sentiment running at a historic high, on Wednesday, Breitbart published an hour-long video from one of the company’s private listening sessions, taped the day after the 2016 election. In it, a group of visibly shaken executives, including C.E.O. Sundar Pichai, and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, express shock and confusion at Trump’s win. “As an immigrant and a refugee, I certainly find this election deeply offensive and I know many of you do, too,” Brin said at one point. “I think it’s a very stressful time. It conflicts with many of our values. It’s a good time to reflect on that.” V.P. Eileen Naughton agreed, and called for the company to begin working with conservatives: “We need to do better, we need to be tolerant, inclusive, try to understand each other in this area.”

Nowhere in the video did the Google executives propose ways to concretely suppress conservative thought. But several far-right figureheads, including many within Trump’s inner circle of advisers and allies, went all in, seeing the mere admission that executives at Google disagreed with conservatives as solid proof that the company was out to actively quash their speech. “Google believes they can shape your search results and videos to make you ‘have their values.’ Open borders. Socialism. Medicare 4 all,” tweeted Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale, who called for congressional hearings. Don Jr., the president’s son, tweeted multiple exhortations for the media to cover the video. “They were talking in their echo chamber & didn’t care,” he said at one point. “They control 91% of all search and they get to decide what everyone sees. If this isn’t a Monopoly I don’t know what is.” Steve Bannon ally Andrew Surabian called the video a “bombshell” and likewise excoriated the mainstream media for failing to cover it, hinting darkly that “maybe this is why so many people distrust the media?” (In a statement, a Google spokeswoman said that the video was from a regularly held open forum, and that “nothing was said at that meeting, or any other meeting, to suggest that any political bias ever influences the way we build or operate our products.”)

Had this week not seen the advent of a potentially catastrophic hurricane and a mysterious controversy over Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, the Google story would likely have lit up the right-wing media sphere. As it was, most of the other right-wing news hubs either ignored the story or devoted minimal coverage to it. Fox News passed over the story on Wednesday night, and it was mentioned only briefly on Fox & Friends the next morning. Trump himself spent the day preoccupied with attacking Democrats over the number of deaths in Puerto Rico.

But the video is bound to capture the president’s attention eventually, giving him and his conservative allies in Congress still more ammunition to push to investigate—and regulate—big tech. In recent weeks, Google has done nothing to burnish its image, infuriating Republican senators when it refused to send an executive to a Congressional hearing on foreign election meddling (Larry Page’s chair stood empty next to Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg). On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy threatened Google with a subpoena, claiming the company “gave a ‘silent donation’ to a left-wing group to stop Trump.” McCarthy’s office declined to elaborate on the details of said donation. But his outburst is reflective of the mistrust of Silicon Valley that has long simmered beneath the surface on the right, and that’s now exploding into the open, stoked by things like Project Veritas’s undercover Twitter video, and the martyring of people like Alex Jones.

Of course, outrage alone isn’t a compelling legal argument. Though Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced shortly after Trump’s tantrum that he would meet with several state attorneys general “to discuss a growing concern that these companies may be hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms,” legal experts were skeptical. Privately held companies, after all, are under no obligation to uphold First Amendment protections. “It doesn’t seem like a realistic legal tactic to accomplish what they say is their goal, which is apparently changing the content policies of these platforms,” Lata Nott, the executive director of the Freedom Forum Institute at the First Amendment Center, told my colleague Maya Kosoff. But legal nuances have never mattered much to a political movement willing to discard everything—norms, laws, even the definition of victory—for the sake of a cultural win. Brietbart’s video may not be the smoking gun the right alleges, but it sets the stage for a continuous wave of conservative outrage that may very well become another polarizing cultural issue.