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Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy (gizmodo.com)

Posted by msmash on from the in-other-news dept.

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."

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  1. In other news... by Shatrat · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...the NRA did a thorough investigation, and didn't find a conservative bias.

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    1. Re:In other news... by sexconker · · Score: 1, Troll

      Uh, gun ownership and use is a right. It applies to civilians. It's a civil right.

  2. Re:Facebook can stay liberal by PopeRatzo · · Score: -1, Troll

    Someone else can make a conservative social network then we can all go to our respective corners.

    There's already a conservative social network. It's called stormfront.org.

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  3. So What? by Carcass666 · · Score: -1, Troll

    So what if Facebook has a liberal bias? They are a private company, they are not funded by the government, they can do what they want. How in the hell is this the US legislature's concern? They should get back to their duly appointed rounds of providing rim jobs to the NRA, getting down on their knees in front of the telecom/bandwidth providers and waxing the Bentley's driven by their overloads in the financial services industry.

    Whores. Leprosy is too good for them.