Facebook Hides Conservative News from Its Homepage, Former Workers Allege
Cara McGoogan and Madhumita Murgia | May 9, 2016
The social network has implied that the trending section that appears along the right hand side of Facebook's website is chosen by crunching data on a story's popularity and timeliness. However, a former contractor who worked on this team has said the stories are often filtered by human news curators, similar to the homepage of a news website.
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| Source: http://www.qeepr.com/blog/digital-graveyard/ |
<more at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/05/09/facebook-hides-conservative-news-from-its-homepage-former-employ/; http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160313-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-facebook-dead (Facebook is a growing and unstoppable digital graveyard. At some point, there will be more dead Facebook users than living ones – and for those left behind, it is transforming how we experience the death of those around us. March 14, 2016) and http://www.qeepr.com/blog/digital-graveyard/ (Welcome to Facebook: The World’s Largest Digital Graveyard. May 4, 2016)>
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