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May 10, 2016

Facebook Accused of Suppressing Conservative News Stories
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And the social media site Facebook has been accused of suppressing news
stories on political grounds. Former Facebook workers told the website
Gizmodo they routinely suppressed news stories of interest to
conservative readers by keeping them out of the "trending" stories
section on the sidebar. Among the topics they purportedly suppressed
were those about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney and Rand
Paul. They were also told to exclude news about Facebook itself, they
said. Gizmodo technology editor Michael Nuņez wrote: "In other words,
Facebook's news section operates like a traditional newsroom reflecting
the biases of its workers and the institutional imperatives of the
corporation." Facebook has denied the allegations it filtered out
conservative stories.


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