It's always a "rogue employee"
The original claim from the single person that started this whole show made that claim as well.
Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
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Re: Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
#62It'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…
Oddly enough there's enough leeway that they are all correct, from a certain point of view.
Bayesian Star Wars : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8IuGxP4Pa4
Re: Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
#63Why would they be able to filter that has been represented at all?
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#64I'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 not always that. Most of the thinking I've heard about this is not to control what Facebook may or not do. Many critics say that Facebook is a private company and can do what they want. The complaint among them is that Facebook lies about it.
Re: Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
#65It'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…
When I think liberal publications, I think Huffington Post, Salon, the Intercept, Vox, etc. What are they saying? 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…
Shall we talk about WaPo and Bezo's beef with Trump?
Re: Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
#66It'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…
If WSJ is "liberal media" we might need new definitions to work from.
Re: Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
#67It'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?
of course they're biased. profit-seeking enterprises are strongly incentivized to not bite the hand that feeds. (not that state news isn't subject to this.) as noam chomsky has talked about, they "manufacture consent".
you see it in say, chris matthews basically trying to "assassinate" sanders while cozying up to clinton.
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#68I'm still waiting for the Fox News bias probe.
Evidence seems to indicate that MSNBC is actually the most biased news network.[1]
[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/14/five-facts-a...
Re: Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
#69Maybe this happens when your hiring process selects against ideological diversity.
Re: Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
#70It'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…
In an alternative scenario you could have the state-run media, cough insert-name-here cough , simply forcing every single outlet to run with their version of the headline: "There still is no Facebook, only use National Party Communication Gathering Website!"
Studies have found that state run media in democratic nations are the least biased.
NPR, BBC.