Posted on 08/27/2016 7:48:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Facebook has fired its Trending News team, responsible for curating the social media network’s “Trending News” list, after Breitbart Tech began to reveal their progressive biases last month. The team is set to be replaced by a team of engineers managing an algorithm.
Facebook’s Trending News feature is supposed to present users with the most popular news topics being discussed across the platform. But a Gizmodo exposé in May revealed that Trending News operated much like a traditional newsroom, with a team of “curators” selecting stories they considered newsworthy.
It was later revealed that the team artificially injected stories that were not trending into the Trending News feed, and routinely suppressed topics that were of interest to conservatives. In response, Republican Senator John Thune, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, sent a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers.
But the focus on Trending News masks an even bigger problem for Facebook: bias in its system of punishments and suspensions. While the social network is usually quick to reinstate accounts that have been wrongly suspended, its record of suspicious suspensions of high-profile conservatives and critics of progressivism is easily equal to Twitter’s.
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Inquiring minds 'n all that....
So instead they will use a biased algorithm.
Why fire them for doing what their fearless leader wanted them to do?
It never was a “trending” team; it was a political team and they got caught. They got caught and corporate Facebook served them up on a silver platter for under the bus. Doesn’t change the attitude or tune and it certainly doesn’t change their heart.
Scumbag money grubber ideological zealots that you can’t ever change if you continue to give them support by using it.
The Siri news feeds on the iPhone are biased. What’s new?
I posted an article on FB about Hillary 2 weeks ago, there was a really good picture with a caption to draw attentiom to the story. FB replaced the photo with an ad for Ben-Hur taking awsy attention to the story.
They censor anti story that is anti left.
Hey folks, there’s a great gal that reports for Breitbart on Twitter. Great conservative posts (easy on the eyes too).
If any of you use twitter you should check out her tweets. Tweets!! I said Tweets!!
What if something about the Gizmodo story told Facebook that Gizmodo had assistance from inside the Facebook staff? Rather than go on a selective witch-hunt, easier just to drop the entire staff.
Might be helpful if you’d tell us who she is
Adelle Nazarian!!!!
Now they get to test the job market for holders of degrees in media studies, women’s studies and African American studies.
FACEBOOK sucks boulders.
Adelle Nazarian works for Breitbart on Twitter. Very conservative and very cool. Look her up if you get a chance.
I told her to pop by here one day.
She’s hardcore in her reports. Very conservative.
So what was reported to be “trending” really wasn’t trending at all. It was politically “shaped” to give the impression of trending in order to influence and manipulate people’s opinions. In other words, it was propaganda.
Should have been fired long ago.
Paki Muslim was lead last year.
LOL. There’s not much of a market out there in the private sector for people whose primary “skillset” is manipulating, concealing and twisting information. If I were them I would apply to the Justice Department, State Department or the FBI.
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