![]() ![]() They gave it preference over other topics. ‘They realized it was a problem, and they boosted it in the ordering. ‘Facebook got a lot of pressure about not having a trending topic for Black Lives Matter,’ the individual said. That same curator said the Black Lives Matter movement was also injected into Facebook’s trending news module. ‘If it looked like it had enough news sites covering the story, we could inject it-even if it wasn’t naturally trending.’ ‘We were told that if we saw something, a news story that was on the front page of these ten sites, like CNN, the New York Times, and BBC, then we could inject the topic,’ said one former curator. The team was also instructed to place items on the trending list that were not actually being talked about or shared, using the company’s “injection tool.” The tool was meant to help push out breaking news stories that were not trending organically or being shared among Facebook users, but sometimes it was used to push whatever the larger news outlets were reporting, even if it wasn’t actually trending or breaking news. Not only did the company suppress news from conservative sources, but it also suppressed news about topics like Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who was killed in 2013, Wisconsin’s John Doe probe into Scott Walker, and IRS official Lois Lerner’s targeting of conservative groups. Whenever a conservative outlet would break a story, the news curators would wait until another “more neutral” news outlet had picked it up before placing it on the list of trending topics. News events were excluded from the list unless more traditional news outlets, such as CNN or BBC, picked it up first. Gizmodo reports that news curators were instructed to ignore certain news topics or events altogether, and told to place items on the list that Facebook users weren’t actually talking about enough to make the topics trend. Now it turns out that the plot to suppress conservative news actually runs much deeper than just ignoring conservative sites. The topics aren’t selected by an auto-generated algorithm, but by young, Ivy League-educated journalists called “news curators.” These individuals were instructed to adhere to the company’s biased guidelines and enabled to let their own agendas run amok. These individuals revealed they were instructed to blackball conservative publications like The Blaze and Brietbart. ![]()
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