Facebook is in crisis management mode after Gizmodo exposed the anti-conservative bias of its “Trending News” selection process. Following the denials by the Trending News manager Tom Stocky (a major Hillary Clinton donor), newly revealed leaked documents show that the massively influential social media site does indeed “artificially inject” stories into the Trending Section and that its policies skew left.
The Guardian, which acquired the leak documents, concludes that, despite Stocky’s denials of personal and company biases influencing which stories are selected on the site, the company “relies heavily on the intervention of a small editorial team to determine what makes its ‘trending module’ headlines.”
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