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http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006

by Michael Nuñez
May 9, 2016

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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