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Re:Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conserva... by hyperpape on Monday May 09, 2016 @02:48PM (#11662122)
Nielsen makes specific claims about the meaning of its data to people who pay for that data, so it would be fraud for them to undermine those claims by manipulating the data. I doubt Facebook does anything similar.
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Re:Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conserva... by Karunamon on Monday May 09, 2016 @03:09PM (#11662290)
What about to the advertisers? If I were a well-funded news outlet with a conservative bias, and I spent money on Facebook, I'd be evaluating my legal options right about now...
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Re:Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conserva... by hyperpape on Monday May 09, 2016 @09:08PM (#11664565)
I'm not sure this is an issue either. The advertisers were buying advertisements, not space on a trending list.
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Re:Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conserva... by Karunamon on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @10:46AM (#11667562)
If they're reordering trends for ideological correctness, it's not a stretch to assume they're doing the same for other content.
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