I’m pretty lefty left liberal in my leanings, but I would quite honestly be fine with FB suppressing overtly biased “news” sources from the right or the left. US Uncut and Raw Story, for example, while entertaining to those of us on the left, aren’t exactly known for being entirely accurate in their reporting, and are…

“ The former curator is politically conservative, one of a very small handful of curators with such views on the trending team.”

“Stories covered by conservative outlets (like Breitbart, Washington Examiner, and Newsmax) that were trending enough to be picked up by Facebook’s algorithm were excluded unless mainstream sites like the New York Times, the BBC, and CNN covered the same stories”

Yeah, but conservative news isn’t news, it’s opinion.

You are delusional if you think Salon and Slate are journalistically equivalent to Breitbart and Newsmax.

Except maybe for Democratic Underground(which I always thought was more of a forum/circle-jerk than a news website), there’s not really any comparison. Slate is practically the NY Times compared to Newsmax.

FB is privately owned, not a news outlet, and therefore under no compulsion to behave like an unbiased news service.

This isnt censorship, nor is it proof of something nefarious. Look at the sites theyre steering away from - those arent news sites, theyre opinion sites. Similarily, i cant temember a single instance of the Trending Feed linking to Gawker or HuffPo or MoveOn....

If they are simply omitting stuff from outlets like “Red State” or “Breitbart”, I can’t see a problem. It’s kind of like omitting the latest from the “National Enquirer”. On the other hand, omitting news that is simply of interest to conservatives is wrong. Facebook could put a disclaimer on their ‘trending’ section…

Thank you. We need to stop pretending that there is just a difference of opinion between some left and tightening folks - some of these people are getting their news from sites that publish outright bullshit.

Stories covered by conservative outlets (like Breitbart, Washington Examiner, and Newsmax) that were trending enough to be picked up by Facebook’s algorithm were excluded unless mainstream sites like the New York Times, the BBC, and CNN covered the same stories.

They suppressed garbage from an unabashed propaganda site like Breitbart. Oh, the humanity! What will I do without the impartial, high-quality journalism of Breitbart on my Facebook feed!?

Stories covered by conservative outlets (like Breitbart, Washington Examiner, and Newsmax) that were trending enough to be picked up by Facebook’s algorithm were excluded unless mainstream sites like the New York Times, the BBC, and CNN covered the same stories.

Breitbart, Washington Examiner, and Newsmax

Please please pleeeeeease let this lead to a mass exodus of Racist Uncles off Facebook.

Did they suppress conservative news or conservative “news”? Because if all they did is not repeat all the BS anti-science press releases or Bhengazi reports and other things that conservative pass off as “news” I’m okay with that

Well, this is a great way to get back at an employer that treated you poorly. Sic the entire angry right wing on ‘em.