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Title: Facebook denies hiding conservative news posts Post by: HCK on May 12, 2016, 04:05:14 pm Facebook denies hiding conservative news posts
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Facebook says it isn't anti-conservative when it comes to highlighting stories in its Trending Topics section. The world’s most popular social network’s comments were in response to a Gizmodo story (http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006) that said Facebook’s human curators were often encouraged to suppress news stories and sources important to conservatives. This happened even when the story or outlet was trending—being shared a lot—among Facebook’s users, according to Gizmodo's story.</p><p> But Facebook says it’s all untrue. “We take these reports extremely seriously, and have found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true,” Tom Stocky (https://www.facebook.com/tstocky/posts/10100853082337958), Facebook’s vice president of search, said in a statement on the social network.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3068180/internet/facebook-denies-hiding-conservative-news-posts.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Facebook denies hiding conservative news posts (http://www.macworld.com/article/3068180/internet/facebook-denies-hiding-conservative-news-posts.html#tk.rss_all) |