Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Report: Facebook Omitted Conservative Topics From Trending List

Report: Facebook Omitted Conservative Topics From Trending List

May 10, 2016 Report: Facebook Omitted Conservative Topics From Trending List , 1 Comments

By The Hill, May 09, 2016

Contractors who worked as “curators” for Facebook’s trending topics section, which can bring significant attention to news stories, regularly didn’t include stories trending among political conservatives, according to a Monday report from Gizmodo. 

A former curator told Gizmodo that when he or she would log on, they would see that topics popular with conservatives were not included on the list. The contractor, a conservative, speculated that the person running the list “didn’t recognize the news topic” or was biased against a conservative figure involved. 
 
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  1. Mary-OrionMay 10, 2016 at 11:03 AM

    Mark Elliot Zuckerberg and his ilk would make great zealot filled despotic and tyrannical Big Brother dictators by the way Zuckerberg runs Facebook as an example and symbol of the book, 'Animal Farm.'

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