Monday, May 9, 2016

Damned Facebook Liberals

Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the site’s users.

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Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all.

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These new allegations emerged after Gizmodo last week revealed details about the inner workings of Facebook’s trending news team—a small group of young journalists, primarily educated at Ivy League or private East Coast universities, who curate the “trending” module on the upper-right-hand corner of the site.

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“Depending on who was on shift, things would be blacklisted or trending,” said the former curator.

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“I’d come on shift and I’d discover that CPAC or Mitt Romney or 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 against Ted Cruz.”

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This individual asked to remain anonymous, citing fear of retribution from the company. The former curator is politically conservative

  Gizmodo
No! I wouldn't have guessed.
“I believe it had a chilling effect on conservative news,” the former curator said.
Sure. You hardly ever hear any conservative news.
Other former curators interviewed by Gizmodo denied consciously suppressing conservative news, and we were unable to determine if left-wing news topics or sources were similarly suppressed. The conservative curator described the omissions as a function of his colleagues’ judgements; there is no evidence that Facebook management mandated or was even aware of any political bias at work.
Wait. Wait. What about "they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module"?

Zuckerberg - isn't that Jewish?

I'll tell you what's trending. Disparaging of Ivy League instutions, read intellectuals. This is that point in the rise of fascism.






...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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