Facebook: The MSNBC of "Objective" News Curation
Per the Facebook Help Center *
Trending
Trending shows you topics that
have recently become popular on Facebook. The topics you see are based on a
number of factors including engagement, timeliness, Pages you've liked and your
location.
And apparently anything
we deemed not progressive enough for your sensitive little brain.
"The source, a former
Facebook curator who identifies as politically conservative, said the team
shied away from featuring conservative-interest stories even when they
qualified as "trending" using Facebook's internal algorithm, unless
they were picked up by another mainstream news organization. Subjects that did
not make the cut included Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, CPAC, Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker, the Drudge Report, and former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, according to
Gizmodo. "I believe it had a chilling effect on conservative news,"
the ex-curator told the website." **
Like a good big-government liberal, the institution that
is Facebook knows better and will protect you from news that got the Lois Lerner IRS Sincere Smile of Disapproval.
Users know and accept the trade-off that FB is ruthlessly
collecting personal information, sharing it as stated in their Advertising Privacy Policy, and occasionally
publicizing profile information (and then apologizing) to enhance its revenue
stream. But I think most of us assumed
the delivery of what’s popular in the news was pretty straight forward. The term insidious comes to mind.
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