But that story could have easily been written without the bogus "suppressing conservatives" angle. "Facebook says an algo picks Trending — but we talked to the humans who actually do," etc.
So let’s take what you say at face value. Single anonymous source claimed to you “several” conservative stories were blacklisted at a time conservative content routinely dominated Facebook—and headline is “conservative news routinely censored”?!? No other corroboration or source.
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I can’t read the story for you, sorry!
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I appreciate you and Josh, and perhaps we can pickup this conversation another time, but I’m on vacation and want to enjoy the last of it, so I have to let this go
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That’s called being played by curveball. Same dynamic. And then rest of media jumped in with more clickbait.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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this is just false. there were *two* sources that both claimed that organically trending right-wing echo-chamber stories were routinely kept *out* of the trending module by curators. one of those sources kept contemporaneous notes.
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one of the sources was a conservative who thought this was unfair, the other was not a conservative and described it as "bias" but also as reasonable editorial judgment. but both sources agreed that facebook's curation team would weed out stories that actually were trending...
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