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Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy (gizmodo.com)
Michael Nunez, reporting for Gizmodo:Facebook is adding political scenarios to its orientation training following concerns, first reported by Gizmodo, that workers were suppressing conservative topics in its Trending news section. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, announced the change during an interview with conservative leader Arthur Brooks, president of the prominent conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute. Brooks also attended a private meeting between Facebook executives and prominent conservative leaders following the controversy. "We had an ex-contractor on that team who accused us of liberal bias," Sandberg said during the interview. "Frankly, it rang true to some people because there is concern that Silicon Valley companies have a liberal bias. We did a thorough investigation, and we didn't find a liberal bias."
Zuckerberg is prep-schooled, Harvard educated, Westchester County old money. He's known to associate himself with the likes of Chris Christie and Peter Thiel (Including fundraising for the former.). And now he's prostrating himself to the American Enterprise Institute and ordering his employees trained to their standards. And this is the guy you think designed and built Facebook to be a bastion of liberalism?
Look at the list of prominent American Enterprise Institute members and associates. It's practically a rogues' gallery of the extreme right wing; including the likes of Robert Bork, Newt Gingrich, Antonin Scalia, John Yoo, and even Darth Cheney himself. If Zuckerberg had a "liberal bias", he wouldn't give that lot the time of day, much less interviews, assurances, and concessions.
Imagine all the people...
If so-called "liberal" politicians would stop trying to pull flagrantly-unconstitutional stunts like tying Second Amendment rights to the goddamned TSA No Fly List, of all things, then the NRA could return to its roots as a promoter of firearms education and safety.
But since the "liberals" evidently won't stop, the political activists on the other side can't stop either. You can't reasonably expect gun owners to stand by and allow ridiculous bullshit to occur like what we've just seen Congress attempt.