As complaints about Big Tech’s anti-conservative bias stay in the spotlight, the industry is pushing back.

In a guest column for USA Today published Tuesday, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation offered the following defense of Google GOOG, +0.92% GOOGL, +0.95% , Facebook FB, +0.20% and Twitter TWTR, -4.83% :

“ ‘These businesses have no incentive to inject bias in their platforms, because consumers across the political spectrum use social media and discriminating against any of them could drive people away.’ ” — Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’s Daniel Castro and Michael McLaughlin

The ITIF is a think tank that has received funding from Alphabet-owned Google and other tech companies. (It’s not clear whether Facebook or Twitter donate, and neither company is represented on ITIF’s board.)

The column was written by Daniel Castro, the group’s vice president and director of its Center for Data Innovation, and Michael McLaughlin, a research assistant.

The think tank’s view comes as Attorney General Jeff Sessions meets Tuesday with state attorneys general to discuss — as a Justice Department spokesman put it — “a growing concern that these companies may be hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms.” President Donald Trump and others on the right have voiced such concerns in recent months. The White House is considering a draft executive order that suggests that authorities recommend actions that would address bias, according to multiple published reports out late last week.

The tech titans “aren’t scary monopolies,” the ITIF’s Castro and McLaughlin also wrote in their column. “While Google and Facebook are often presented as dominating the market, they only account for a quarter of global media ad revenues.” Google attracts an estimated 85% of U.S. searches. Facebook’s market share of active U.S. social media users was estimated at almost 70% in 2011, but that figure has dropped to about 37%.

“The Justice Department should back off its unseemly political attacks on social media platforms,” Catro and McLaughlin added. “Policymakers should continue to employ a light-touch regulatory approach, so consumers can benefit from the platforms’ continued growth and innovation.”

The direct evidence of anti-conservative bias is sketchy at best and stems from unscientific studies, according to the think tank.

On the other side of the issue, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee — often called “the father of the World Wide Web” — has suggested that regulators should crack down on tech giants, while sounding disappointed about how his invention has developed. And some analysts say government action looks increasingly likely.

“We’re increasing our odds to 45%, up from 25%, that states and/or the federal government will take antitrust enforcement actions against large technology firms at some point over the next 6-12 months (six months sooner than we originally projected),” said Height Securities analysts Stefanie Miller and Hunter Hammond in a note Monday.