After Denying Bias, Facebook Changes Policies That Produce Anti-Conservative Bias…”We didn’t do anything wrong, but we’ll stop doing it.”

Tuesday, May 24, 2016
By Paul Martin

by Dan Calabrese via CanadaFreePress.com,
ZeroHedge.com
05/24/2016

We didn’t do anything wrong, but we’ll stop doing it.

That’s pretty much what Facebook said late Monday by changing the policies it insisted did not need to be changed in order to stop the suppression of news stories that appear favorable to conservatives in its Trending Topics section.

Reuters:

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Monday that it had changed some of the procedures for its “Trending Topics” section after a news report alleging it suppressed conservative news prompted a U.S. Congressional demand for more transparency.

The company said an internal probe showed no evidence of political bias in the selection of news stories for Trending Topics, a feature that is separate from the main “news feed” where most Facebook users get their news.

But the world’s largest social network said in a blogpost that it was introducing several changes, including elimination of a top-ten list of approved websites, more training and clearer guidelines to help human editors avoid ideological or political bias, and more robust review procedures.

Earlier this month, a former Facebook contractor had accused the company’s editors of deliberately suppressing conservative news. The allegations were reported by technology news website Gizmodo, which did not identify the ex-contractor.

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