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Re:Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conserva... by michaelbuddy on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:33PM (#11661076)
>> But we would have to go and find the same story from a more neutral outlet that wasn’t as biased. >This is delivered as if it is inherently a bad thing, when it most assuredly is not.

Keep in mind this is a statement quoted by the curator summing up what s/he said they did over a long span of time. Their recollection of what they tended to do is not necessarily reality. They could be lying in that quote to try to soften what they did. And their quest to find something less biased means diddly given the bias across all news.

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Re:Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conserva... by bobwaycott on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:38PM (#11661128)
Oh, I know. I perhaps should have made it more clear that my issue was with the curator saying that as if it was inherently bad and indicative of a problem, instead of inherently good and useful as a rule.
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