“'We were told that if we saw something, a news story that was on the front page of these ten sites, like CNN, the New York Times, and BBC, then we could inject the topic,' said one former curator. 'If it looked like it had enough news sites covering the story, we could inject it—even if it wasn’t…”Tagged: Social Media, Journalism, Media, Bias, Facebook
“Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential 'trending' news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering,…”Tagged: Facebook, Facebook Trending, Politics of Curation, Trending