Discussion: <span class="s1">Facebook: Internal Investigation Found No Evidence Of Anti-Conservative Bias

So, they caved to the Right Wing Nuts.

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Wing nuts will just say that this proves there is a conspiracy. You can’t win with those folks.

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Zuckerberg added: “And we would welcome a similar analysis over at Fox News.”

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Thune got what he wanted.

Stretch wrote that Facebook would no longer rely on a list of 10 mainstream media sources to vet news stories, nor assign “importance levels” to certain topics …

This is how the right censors reporters – through an onerous form of intimidation against independent voices in the mainstream media that proves their own complaints about “political correctness” grossly hypocritical.

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Over at CBN they are reporting that Facebook is amending its ways to correct the biased results. Once again the persecuted Christians at CBN are creating the news they need to confirm their own prejudices.

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Imagine that, more manufactured right-wing outrage!

Fortunately, I do not rely on Facebook for my news source.

I rely on TPM. (What do you mean, self-selected liberal bubble?)

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"We were also unable to substantiate any of the specific allegations of politically-motivated suppression of particular subjects or sources.

But the whining of those whose nature is to hate, fear and discriminate against the other will continue. Because when their dog given right to discriminate is blocked they are being discriminated against.

Well sure they are…

meh…

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Internal investigations …always seems to ‘find no evidence’ of wrong - doing. Useful tool, those 'internal investigations.

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Darn!

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I don’t use fb much, but I thought the trending was a result of the most read items. If people aren’t interested in your “news”, it won’t trend upwards, so these guys want artificial favorable placement?

Won’t stop the flying monkey brigade from crying like babies while trying to work the ref over, and over, and over…

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Well, this will surely end the RWNJ freakout. No conspiracy to see here. /s

I don’t care who it is, I wouldn’t trust an ‘internal investigation’ that so much as revealed that the sun was shining in the sky…

Maybe Thune could spend less time playing on Facebook, and devote a little more effort to his job.

Why hasn’t he cut our taxes? Where’s the jobs? Why can’t we drink water anymore?

general counsel, Colin Stretch

Schlonged?

Are there enough people to facebomb something like “Trump declares bankruptcy again” into trending? Do that once and you’ll see the right insist on thorough vetting of all stories.

Isn’t Facebook a privately owned fucking company that can be as biased as it wants to be? Small government, my ass.