A Facebook official says the company has found no evidence to back up allegations that Facebook contractors suppressed stories of interest to conservatives in its “Trending” section.
Facebook vice president of search Tom Stocky writes in a post, “There are rigorous guidelines in place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality,” adding that the guidelines don’t permit political perspectives to be suppressed or one viewpoint or outlet to be prioritized over another.
Stocky also says an allegation that the site artificially forced the Black Lives Matter movement to trend is “untrue.”
Facebook is responding to a Monday report from Gawker’s Gizmodo blog on claims from unnamed former Facebook contractors who worked as news curators for the company.
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Probably interns who didn’t get the gig.
And BTW, if my brother-in-law’s wallpaper is to be taken into account, trending or not this shit hits the facebook fan far and wide.
Even if FB were tilting the results, so what? Since when has FB ever claimed to be a news organization? Compare FB to FoxNews, which actually does make that claim.
So Facebooks news feed wasn’t politically correct enough for right wingers so they called in the PC police. Hypocrites.
I absolutely love that this story was trending on Facebook. Trending: Report suggests Facebook suppresses right wing stories from trending.
Irony meters now critically endangered.
Wow a claim by some unsubstantiated conservative employee of facebook can be proven. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.!