Former employees reveals.
According to former employees who have worked project, strainers Facebook out news stories that are in the interest of conservative readers on the social medium’s news section.
Siler out news
the person claims that employees should have prevented the stories about a CPAC-gathering (conservative Political Action Conference), former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Rand Paul and other conservative themes to end up in the news list – although they trended on the Internet.
Many of those who worked in this department in Facebook allegedly told Gizmodo that they were instructed to “inject” selected cases into the “trending” although these were not popular enough.
the news section – launched in 2014 – is an important property on the Internet and dictating what news Facebook users – over 1.65 billion daily – read at any time.
deny the allegations
Facebook’s VP of Search, Tom Stocky, writes in a statement that “the company takes these reports extremely seriously and that they have not found any evidence that the anonymous allegations are true. “
” Facebook is a platform for people and perspectives from the entire political spectrum. There are strict guidelines in place for the investigation department will ensure consistency and neutrality. These guidelines do not allow suppression of political views, “he writes.
Gizmodo has posted the video below that address Facebook’s” trending section. “Read more about the findings in the source link.
source: Gizmodo
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