Posted on 05/09/2016 12:04:08 PM PDT by reaganaut1
A former Facebook employee told Gizmodo that employees prevented news from conservative news outlets and news about conservative politics from appearing in Facebook’s trending news column.
The former employee, a political conservative who worked as a news curator for the social network, told Gizmodo that the practice prevented news about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Fox News contributor Steven Crowder, among others, from being included in the trending section despite their popularity.
The source said that individual curators determined which stories would appear on Facebook’s trending section, and that conservative news outlets were routinely left out. Another former employee, who worked on the social network’s trending news desk, said that the suppression came because the human curation team was “doing it subjectively.”
“It just depends on who the curator is and what time of day it is,” the person said. Facebook managers also instructed employees to add stories that were not trending by “injecting” the topic into the trending box, and prevent stories about Facebook from trending on the site, the people said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
no doubt, some sort of algorithm error /s
Facebook is Evil!
Zuckerberg is a POS New England new Age terrorism enabler. He scolded employees for not doing more for the cop killing Black Lives Matter terror outfits and invariably hush stories of muslim terrorism. Apartheid South Adrica did not bomb us, but, hey, let us not judge islam...
SNN
Snookerberg NooZ Nutwerk
The FBI should not go after Apple but after Zuckerberg
Yeah, closed my FB account for good today. Was nice for keeping in touch with family and military buddies, but...The downside besides being spoon-fed a liberal worldview is the regular discovery of how many people I’m friends with who are felony stupid.
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