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Facebook hides conservative news from its homepage, former workers allege
« on: May 10, 2016, 03:10:46 am »

Facebook hides conservative news from its homepage, former workers allege

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The social network has implied that the trending section that appears along the right hand side of Facebook's website is chosen by crunching data on a story's popularity and timeliness. However, a former contractor who worked on this team has said the stories are often filtered by human news curators, similar to the homepage of a news website.

The ex-journalist revealed that they would regularly exclude US conservative topics for the section even if they were trending on the social network.

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Re: Facebook hides conservative news from its homepage, former workers allege
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2016, 03:46:41 am »
Quote from: Suppressed on May 10, 2016, 03:10:46 am
Facebook hides conservative news from its homepage, former workers allege

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Read more at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/05/09/facebook-hides-conservative-news-from-its-homepage-former-employ/

Doesn't surprise me in the least!
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Re: Facebook hides conservative news from its homepage, former workers allege
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2016, 04:13:27 am »
I know Face Book hasn't taken anything I have posted from the Drudge Report or anything else so far! However, I am pretty close of cancelling it. I have a problem with the head honcho who continues to blab to the American people that he is a LIBERAL!!! Wish I could tell him to keep his yap shut!!!
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