Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives

@voku of course there is, otherwise this wouldn't be news.

It's more likely that there was a policy in place that allowed for some curation, and either the policy targeted a specific political subset of news for removal unintentionally, or the policy was vague enough to allow the political leanings of the people tasked with carrying it out to express themselves.

Then again, maybe it's also a matter of a specific subset of news which is often factually incorrect and associated with a political view, such as conservative reporting on climate science (not that the same isn't true for some liberal new items, but this is a fairly egregious example).

It's interesting how media outlets are spinning this news. People that read conservative media are left thinking that Facebook has admitted bias. People that read liberal media are left thinking the opposite.

Washington Times: "Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives"

LA Times: "Facebook investigation reveals no evidence of bias against conservative topics, company says"

NY Times: "Facebook Says an Investigation Found No Evidence of Bias in a News App"

WSJ: "Facebook to Revamp 'Trending Topics' Feature to Reduce Bias Risk"

NY Post print edition (my favorite): "You won't read this on Facebook; Site censors the news"

"But with nearly two-thirds of Facebook users saying they get at least some of their news from the online platform, conservatives said any chance of bias could skew political conversations."

I really don't understand this whole situation? How is this happening?

If the argument is "We don't like how you're skewing news about our kind", how is this not seen as pure hypocrisy and laughed out of the room?

Can you imagine the uproar by Conservatives if a Liberal group demanded a meeting with Roger Ailes over their manipulation of Liberal talking points, skewing political conversations across the country for the last 30 years?

How can anyone on the Conservative side, especially pundits and politicians that rely on Fox News to spin their very special brand of stupid, stand up and say "Facebook is in the wrong?"

Things are right. There's nothing wrong with Facebook having a liberal bias. Every tech company full of young smart people is going to have a liberal bias. They aren't the government, they don't have to be unbiased. Conservatism isn't exactly popular among the non-old non-white population despite any anecdotal data about young conservatives you might know. Young people and minorities skew liberal, that's just how the world is.