“Our investigation did not substantiate this allegation. To the contrary, topics related to each figure were accepted as trending topics on dozens of occasions. Ted Cruz was accepted as a trending topic more than 160 times; Rand Paul was accepted on50 occasions; Mitt Romney was accepted more than 40…”— Colin Strech, commerce.senate.govTagged: Facebook, Trending Topics, News, Digital News, Digital Journalism
“Our investigation has revealed no evidence of systematic political bias in the selection or prominence of stories included in the Trending Topics feature. In fact, our analysis indicated that the rates of approval of conservative and liberal topics are virtually identical in trending topics.”— Colin Strech, commerce.senate.govTagged: Facebook, Trending Topics, News, Digital News, Digital Journalism