And it could get much worse: if we find out that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered this "tweaking" of the News Feed on the behest of the White House, the Democratic National Committee and/or the Hillary Clinton campaign, then it officially becomes a Federal First Amendment case because it is using an instrument of communication to suppress political dissent, something prohibited specifically by the First Amendment.
If I were Jack Dorsey (the CEO of Twitter), Larry Page and Sergei Brin (the co-founders of Google), Satya Nadella (the CEO of Microsoft, who runs the Bing search engine), Sheryl Sandberg (the CEO of Yahoo!), and Evan Spiegel (the CEO of Snapchat), I would be VERY nervous because people are going to start asking questions on whether Conservative views were deliberately suppressed on social media and web search results. And especially if it was done in cahoots with powerful political people on the Left. And Tim Cook (Apple CEO) and Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO) will be asked whether voice command queries with Apple's Siri system or the Amazon Echo device have the same biases.
This is the type of scandal that could cause TREMENDOUS harm to the tech industry in very short order.
I’m not sure why it would.
Most of those folks are regime partisans and several are Obama bundlers.
Do you think Caliph Baraq will sic Loretta Lynch on them?