Posted on 05/24/2016 12:03:30 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Facebook announced Monday it was sending employees out for retraining and would discontinue some of its practices as it sought to defend itself against charges of political bias against conservatives.
The online giant denied that it’s shown “systematic political bias,” but admitted employees played a bigger role than previously acknowledged in determining what news is highlighted in the trending topics section.
Facebook also acknowledged that rogue employees may have unintentionally discriminated against conservative stories or even acted with malice in “isolated improper actions.”
In one instance Facebook rejected a story this year about the opening of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference — the largest gathering of right-wing activists in the country. Facebook says that was likely because there were already enough stories about the Republican presidential primary. But the company said since it allowed CPAC posts in 2015, and covered other parts of the 2016 conference, there wasn’t any discrimination.
“Our investigation has revealed no evidence of systematic political bias in the selection or prominence of stories included in the Trending Topics feature. In fact, our analysis indicated that the rates of approval of conservative and liberal topics are virtually identical in Trending Topics,” Colin Stretch, the company’s general counsel, said in an extensive reply to Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, who is probing the allegations of bias.
Former Facebook employees told Gizmodo earlier this month that they detected bias in the way news was “curated” by the site, with stories on top GOP figures, conservative commentators and right-wing causes getting short shrift.
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“Rogue employees?”
Is that anything like “unexpected?”
Sounds like the IRS.
It’s always a consequence-less slap on the wrist for leftists.
Seems to be my like it is always “rogue employees” when it comes to covering up dasterdley deeds by liberals.
Remember ACORN? They said it was a few “rogue employees” that signed up mickey mouse and dead people in voter registrations.
Then, it was those “rogue employees” at Planned Parenthood and not the organization itself.
“may have”???????
Kinda like those “rogue” IRS employees in Cincinnati that were being mean to TEA Party groups.
On staff for Facebookie?
Rogue? Don’t they mean rouge?
As in “red to the bone”?
This is just another liberal lie.
In the intelligence community this is called a “limited Hangout” where low hanging fruit is sacrificed to cover-up the real movers behind the assorted crimes & wrong-doings.
Those nasty “rogue employers” are everywhere!
Just like the IRS
I see....the old “Lois Lerner” defense.
Or those “rogue” employees at ACORN and Planned Parenthood. Typical liberal defense.
FUFB
“Rogue employees”? You mean they hired liberals who behaved like liberals, right? And now they’ll get “re-trained”...
Would you people FORCE Facebook to change its own policies? Kinda sounds like forcing a bakery to bake a cake for a gay couple.
We are free to protest Facebook, boycott Facebook, and start our own social media empire. But enough is enough with calling for Facebook to alter its internal policies.
I’ll believe Fakebook, when I see the list of those canned.
Funny how all of the troublemakers in the world are either merely rogues or lone wolves...
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