Gozmodo: Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News
Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the site’s users.
Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all. The former curators, all of whom worked as contractors, also said they were directed not to include news about Facebook itself in the trending module.
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WNU Editor: So much for Facebook's claims that the trending module simply lists “topics that have recently become popular on Facebook.”
More News On Reports That Facebook Routinely Suppresses Conservative News
Ex-Facebook staffers say social network buried conservative news, raising new questions about its political influence -- Washington Post
Facebook hides conservative news from its homepage, former employee reveals -- The Telegraph
Report: Facebook omitted conservative topics from trending list -- The Hill
Facebook accused of censoring conservatives in newsfeed, report says -- The Guardian
Report: Conservative news sites left out of Facebook's trending news column -- Politico
Shocker: Former Facebook employee says site suppresses conservative news -- Washington Times
There’s a major issue at the heart of how Facebook shows you news -- Tech Insider
Ex-Facebook Workers Admit to Suppressing Conservative News Outlets in the Trending Section -- GQ Magazine
4 comments:
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I don't think this is really a surprise to anyone. Facebook has been accused of bias in many of their actions, and by reading the trending topics on a daily basis there is always a lack of more conservative-leaning topics unless it is Trump or something negative.
Facebook is a two face media organization and no they cannot be trusted.
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