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Re:Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conserva... by gunshigh on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:07PM (#11660863)
Or Facebook has learned the art of Plausible Deniability.

If the bias happens during hiring (by preferring candidates who naturally lean left), then Facebook merely needs to give them curation power without giving explicit instructions.

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Re:Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conserva... by lazzlazzlazz on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:54PM (#11661256)
This sounds too much like a conspiracy theory to take very seriously. Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence.
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Re:Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conserva... by gunshigh on Monday May 09, 2016 @01:11PM (#11661383)
> The Facebook CEO was overheard responding that "we need to do some work" on curtailing anti-immigrant posts about the refugee crisis. "Are you working on this?" Merkel asked in English, to which Zuckerberg replied in the affirmative before the transmission was disrupted.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/27/angela-merkel-caught-on-hot-m...

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Re:Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conserva... by gaius on Monday May 09, 2016 @04:17PM (#11662786)
Such as the BBC only advertising jobs in the Graun, and wondering why people accuse it of bias.
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Re:Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conserva... by DanBC on Monday May 09, 2016 @04:22PM (#11662829)
To be fair, the Sun also do most of their recruitment advertising the in grauniad. The Guardian is the only daily paper with a media recruitment section. It's not surprising that media outlets advertise media jobs in a media recruitment section.
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