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Facebook employees admit to censoring right-wing news
INN ^ | 5/10/2016, 10:50 AM | Matt Wanderman

Posted on 05/10/2016 10:59:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A number of former Facebook employees have revealed that the popular social media site adjusts the news stories it presents in order to encourage a liberal bias.

The whistleblowers, who asked to remain anonymous, told Gizmodo that the site’s “news curators” were told to modify the “trending news” section by hiding stories that supported conservative attitudes and promoting others that interested liberals. […]

One of the most direct examples described in Gizmodo was the Black Lives Matter movement, which largely grew out of social media posts. While it was in its early stages, Facebook decided to actively intervene in order to make the movement’s posts reach a wider audience. …

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: blackliesmatter; censorship; facebook; rightwing; socialmedia

1 posted on 05/10/2016 10:59:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Fakebook. Also, 20-30% of their accounts are fake. People with multiple id’s, etc.. It’s a joke.


2 posted on 05/10/2016 11:02:17 AM PDT by petercooper (All the world's problems are caused by the sandrats, hoodrats, gimmedats, democrats and commiecrats.)
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To: Olog-hai

So Fakebook was inciting riot by advancing BLM?

Let the prosecutions begin.


3 posted on 05/10/2016 11:02:18 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: petercooper

Unless you actually know all the people who you communicate with. As is the case for about 95% of the people who use it.


4 posted on 05/10/2016 11:10:56 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Olog-hai

What was declared to be trending on Facebook was used to manage the Republican presidential debates.

What they claimed was ascendant on Facebook at the time always sounded bogus to me.


5 posted on 05/10/2016 11:11:52 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Olog-hai

My husband and I do not do social media.

But this is Shocking......NOT.

Scumbags.


6 posted on 05/10/2016 11:23:23 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Olog-hai

Zuckerberg = Enemy of Freedom.


7 posted on 05/10/2016 11:36:02 AM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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To: Olog-hai

Just this morning CNN reported FB wasn’t censoring. Of course, the msm lies.


8 posted on 05/10/2016 1:07:44 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Uversabound

This site is social media.


9 posted on 05/10/2016 1:12:33 PM PDT by Borges
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