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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: "F…
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: "F…
What's funny to me is that about a year ago Politico had an article [1] about how Google can influence elections, when to me the elephant in the room was actually Facebook.
I have no doubt Google can influence elections (especially through its corporate media "AMP partners" [2] that get shown in a carousel on Google above everything else, and through automated top answers), but at least on Google you have to show some kind of intent when searching for something. I'm not going to see Hillary Clinton articles when searching for a new laptop.
On Facebook, stuff gets pushed to you potentially trying to change your views every day. So I do think Facebook is the bigger danger for this sort of thing.
[1] http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-co...
[2] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-10/07/google-accele...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Glen Beck actually wrote a piece after the meeting saying he took Mark at his word, and complained about the tenor of the other conservatives in the meeting: http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/05/19/what-disturbed-glenn-abo... > But until then, based on our research and my personal experience with Facebook, I believe they are acting in good faith and share some very deep, fundamental principles with people who believe in…
I was quite surprised at the very reasonable position Glen Beck took. Very interesting.
"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." Two-thirds... get at least some ... Ooookay? I'm not sure at what point we're all supposed to start running around with our hair on fire. Am I supposed to pretend that the much smaller number of people who rely on Facebook for th…
They still haven't shown that there's any sort of anti-conservative bias. Finding a trending topic and using the best source available to represent the information is not the same thing as bias. Conservative sites are, by definition, not the best sources available.
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: "F…
The NY Post and WSJ are Murdoch/Fox/News Corp publications; they are on a mission. Last I knew the Washington Times was owned by the cult leader Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church - I never understood why anyone takes it seriously.
But there still is apolitical journalism in the world; it's hardly impossible to do. The political operatives like to paint everything as politicized in order to delegitimize news they don't like, and to legitimize their own propaganda campaigns by making it a norm.
To be honest, I'm a.) somewhat surprised that people are surprised by this b.) not sure why there is a government probe into this. Also the irony of Glenn Beck bitching about bias in media is definitely not lost on me.
The problem arises when people claiming to be journalists, or neutral (NYT, facebook) change stories based on their own biases without stating what they really are. NYT Opinion, or editorial board, sure, fine, have biases. But the front page should not be biased, neither should facebook.
I want journalists in the vein of Tim Russert, Chris Wallace or Lisa Ling. If they have biases they certainly conceal them extremely well. Chris Wallace is not afraid to ask hard questions of politicians, especially of conservatives, despite being on Fox News. Lisa Ling is amazing too, she may not ask tough questions per se, but watching her be so unbiased/open with people like drug dealers, polygamous families or pedophiles is rather impressive. She is legitimately trying to see the world through her subjects eyes, as revolting as that may be for 80-99% of the population.
I'm totally fine with this. If you want to advocate for a world in which all resources are privately-owned (leaving no commonly-owned space for discourse) and that a global, multi-billion-dollar social media service has the same free speech rights as a mom and pop grocery, then you deserve to reap the rewards of your own ideology.
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: "F…
"There still is no Facebook, only use National Party Communication Gathering Website!"
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: "F…
I am curious how many of these medias actually admit that they are biased themselves?
Given how much liberal outlets scoff at the notion of there being a pervasive liberal bias in the MSM, I suspect they legitimately just don't see it as they're surrounded by people with the same political views and so are predisposed to believing that's what "normal" is.
I started using this Chrome extension to block Facebook trends: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-facebook-tre... I checked the source and it just seems to grab the div and set the style to hidden. It's not perfect, because when I open Facebook sometimes Trends are visible for a second, but it's much better than glancing at the section and being drawn into clicking on whatever celebrity news or other he…