After Hillary Clinton suffered two massive coughing fits today, social media was all abuzz.
But you wouldn’t know that judging by Facebook’s “Trending” section.
Both of these images were captured on Monday at 7:55 p.m. ET.
This one shows #HackingHillary was the number two non-promoted hashtag on Twitter:
But on Facebook, the topic, much less the hashtag, supposedly wasn’t trending at all:
But Raquel Welch and Bob Newhart — and Soledad O’Brien?!? — were?
The Daily Caller reported on Facebook’s Trending section apparent liberal bias.
Facebook’s trending news section, which was accused of censoring conservative news, was managed by a staff full of liberal employees.
The social media company has fired the 15-18 employees who worked on trending news, in an attempt to replace any possibility of bias with an algorithm. Gizmodo reported in May that Facebook “news curators” buried conservative stories. This caused Republican South Dakota Sen. John Thune to send a letter to Facebook inquiring about its trending news section. “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 wrote. …
Research into the Facebook trending team provided to The Daily Caller by the investigative group Wesearchr shows little diversity on the news curation team. The team instead included employees that have bashed Trump, supported Black Lives Matter and said “hateful actions, contrary to popular thought, are not protected by ‘free speech.'”
Apparently Facebook still hasn’t solved its liberal glitch.
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