Facebook denies anti-conservative bias, censorship
May 10, 2016  22:50
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Facebook today denied allegations from a former news curator that it scrubs its site of articles by and about political conservatives.
Tech news outlet Gizmodo reported yesterday that a former news curator at the social media giant has alleged that articles from politically conservative outlets -- particularly when written about conservative subjects -- were deliberately omitted from Facebook's "trending news" sidebar of popular stories.
"I'd come on shift and I'd discover that Conservative Political Action Conference or (former presidential candidate) Mitt Romney or (radio talk show host) Glenn Beck or popular conservative topics wouldn't be trending because either the curator didn't recognize the news topic or it was like they had a bias," the individual told Gizmodo anonymously.
The charges unleashed a fierce debate in the US media and on the social network itself, which has some 1.6 billion users around the globe.
But the Silicon Valley-based Facebook, a dominant player in the social media world, denied having an anti-conservative bias.
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