Facebook suppressing Conservative news?? naaaaaaa

[sirs]

Really not a shocker

[Xavier_Onassis]

Facebook is not intended to be as news site.
Breitbart and WND routinely post biased stories

[sirs]

They aren't social media outlets either

[Xavier_Onassis]

Facebook is social media.
Breitbart and WND are righ5t wing reactionary political propaganda outlets.
None of the three is a news outlet.

[sirs]

Breibart and WND are conservative news & commentary outlets.  Facebook is neither

[Xavier_Onassis]

They are propaganda sites.
Facebook is a social media site.

And so I return to what I said earlier: anyone who gets their news from Facebook is a fool.

[sirs]

They are propaganda sites.

lol....says your 99.8% wrong opinion record

[Christians4LessGvt]

Facebook is not intended to be as news site.

So why are they censoring conservative members posts?
What is ZuckerJerkOff afraid of?

[Xavier_Onassis]

They have no obligation to link to propaganda sites like Breitbart and E]WND, neither of which is an actual news source.
You want to know what Zuckerberg thinks, ask him, not me.

[sirs]

No need to ask...he's made is political ideology pretty clear.  Just sad that he's injecting his creation with his ideology.

That said, Facebook is a private entity.  It can do whatever it wants, so long as it isn't illegal.  Point being they're no longer hiding the political support and bias they have.  Now of course, if this were a Conservative ownership, suppressing liberal POV's......oh gads, the outrage, and calls for legislation, if not fines, would be deafening.

[Xavier_Onassis]

You have a warped sense of fairness.

[sirs]

LOL....you have no ficken concept of fairness

[Christians4LessGvt]

"Facebook must answer these serious allegations and hold those responsible to account if there has been political bias in the dissemination of trending news," said Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) in a statement. "Any attempt by a neutral and inclusive social media platform to censor or manipulate political discussion is an abuse of trust and inconsistent with the values of an open Internet."

Thune sent a letter to Zuckerberg after Gizmodo reported allegations that the human curators behind the company's "Trending" feature omitted topics popular with conservatives and didn't include stories from conservative news outlets.

Thune's letter to Zuckerberg asks a number of questions, including whether "Facebook news curators in fact manipulated the content of the Trending Topics section, either by targeting news stories related to conservative views for exclusion or by injecting non-trending content."

A Facebook executive said Tuesday that an initial review found "no evidence" to support the bias charges.

The South Dakota Republican also asked for more details on the guidelines Facebook has said stop the curators of the trending section from suppressing conservative news outlets.

"If Facebook presents its Trending Topics section as the result of a neutral, objective algorithm, but it is in fact subjective and filtered to support or suppress particular political viewpoints, Facebook?s assertion that it maintains a ?platform for people and perspectives from across the political spectrum "misleads the public," Thune wrote to Zuckerberg.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/279361-top-republican-demands-answers-over-alleged-facebook-political-bias

[hnumpah]

I don't bother with Facebook because of privacy issues, and never really even considered it as a source of news.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I don't see where Thune or any Republican (or any government official of any political stripe) has any right to tell Zuckerberg how to run his business. Sumbitch Republican'ts are always crowing about "freedom" and they want to tell Zuckerberg what he can and cannot do. There are dozens of  Internet sites that claim to be purveyors of news that are deliberately biased.

Facebook is not a news site, anyway. Thune is just grandstanding stupidly. Nothing will come of this.