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Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com)
Michael Nunez, reporting for Gizmodo: 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. In other words, Facebook's news section operates like a traditional newsroom, reflecting the biases of its workers and the institutional imperatives of the corporation. Imposing human editorial values onto the lists of topics an algorithm spits out is by no means a bad thing -- but it is in stark contrast to the company's claims that the trending module simply lists "topics that have recently become popular on Facebook." The revelation comes amid a report on the same publication which claimed that a small group of journalists controlled and decided what should trend on Facebook. Also recently, a leaked screenshot revealed Facebook employees asking whether they should do something to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the president.
So, I guess you've completely forgotten about the "Free Speech Zones" under Bush the Younger? Or how the Tea Party labels some politicians as RINOs? Ideas that fall outside of some mythical Republican ideal are ignored too. Doesn't make the Democratic/liberal side of things any less acceptable, but let's not pretend for a second that Republicans aren't pulling the same shit.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Don't knock it. Bookmark the link and use it any time an Illiberal sneers at you with something like "reality has Liberal bias".
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.