From a GIZMODO News Story, Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section!
This shouldn’t be a surprise to most honest and open minded people in America, but then again, this is the NEW America! Brain dead, forced feed news and 65% gullible.
Some of the things LEFT OFF the “Trending lists”:
Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) Gathering
Mitt Romney
Rand Paul
Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
Drudge Report
Navy Seal Chris Kyle murdered in 2013
Steven Crowder
Breitbart News Stories
Washington Examiner Stories
Newsmax Stories
Any FACEBOOK company stories that gave a bad light on them
When stories about Facebook itself would trend organically on the network, news curators used less discretion—they were told not to include these stories at all. “When it was a story about the company, we were told not to touch it,” said one former curator.
Some of the things PRESSED IN the “Trending Lists”:
CNN News Stories
New York Times New Stories
British Broadcasting Company (BBC) News Stories
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
The Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris
Syria News
Black Lives Matter Stories
“We were told that if we saw something, a news story that was on the front page of these ten sites, like CNN, the New York Times, and BBC, then we could inject the topic,” said one former curator.
Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all. The former curators, all of whom worked as contractors, also said they were directed not to include news about Facebook itself in the trending module.
In other words, Facebook’s news section operates like a traditional newsroom, reflecting the biases of its workers and the institutional imperatives of the corporation. Imposing human editorial values onto the lists of topics an algorithm spits out is by no means a bad thing—but it is in stark contrast to the company’s claims that the trending module simply lists “topics that have recently become popular on Facebook.”
FAKEBOOK, pushing an agenda “Organically”!