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Facebook Is Tweaking Trending Topics To Counter Charges of Bias (recode.net)
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook has said once again in an open letter to Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, that its Trending Topics section is free of any political bias or manipulation. But in response to Gizmodo's report that Facebook employees were suppressing conservative news stories, Facebook is revamping how editors find trending stories. "We could not fully exclude the possibility of isolated improper actions or unintentional bias in the implementation of our guidelines or policies," Facebook general Counsel Colin Stretch wrote. Of course, Facebook is going to train the human editors who work on their trending section; they're also going to abandon several automated tools it used to find and categorize trending news in the past. Recode provides some examples, writing, "[Facebook] will no longer use its "1K list," a group of 1,000 websites it used to help verify headlines." Facebook will also get rid of several top publications, including the New York Times and CNN.
Nobody on the left wants to force straights that want to marry to marry homosexuals, but everyone on the right wants to force homosexuals that want to marry to marry straights. It is only the "conservatives" who are trying to force people to follow rules, liberals believe in allowing people to follow their own hearts.
Oh My God. I actually had to write that out considering how utterly shocked I am. Since when are conservatives forcing homosexual people to marry straight people? Why do you make this stuff up?
If being conservative was considered a race, your comment would be as racist as they come. Next time before you post about "people on the right", reread your statement and insert instead "people who are black". If the comment sounds racist when you insert that, then you should not post it and really re-examine your personal values.