Tag Archives: Bias

Trump’s social media bias reporting project is a data collection tool in disguise

I. Three years ago this month, Mark Zuckerberg gathered together a group of influential conservatives to defend Facebook against allegations of political bias. The company had found itself under pressure after Gizmodo reported that the editors who then worked for Facebook “routinely suppressed conservative news” from its since-abandoned Trending Topics module. It hoped that a roundtable discussion with Glenn Beck, Fox News host ... Read More »

Facebook Refutes report Claiming Bias in ‘Trending’ topics

facebook employees have often disregarded conservative political tales from the internet site‘s “trending”list, the generation news web page Gizmodo said on Monday in a file that sparked giant touch uponsocial media. An unnamed former facebook employee informed Gizmodo that people “robotically suppressedinformation testimonies of hobby to conservative readers,” according to Gizmodo, even as “artificially”adding other memories into the trending list. ... Read More »

facebook Refutes file Claiming Bias in ‘Trending’ topics

fb workers have regularly neglected conservative political testimonies from the website‘s “trending” list, the era news site Gizmodo stated on Monday in a record that sparked tremendous comment on social media. An unnamed former fb employee told Gizmodo that employees “automatically suppressed informationmemories of interest to conservative readers,” in step with Gizmodo, at the same time as “artificially”adding different tales ... Read More »