Facebook Changes Trending Topics Amid Accusations Of Bias Against Conservatives

[PC2]

Perhaps, but even if bias was found, they still wouldn't have done anything illegal. This is an internal investigation of their own policies. There is literally no need for 3rd party.

Has someone said they were doing anything illegal in this thread?

[Santti]

Has someone said they were doing anything illegal in this thread?

Read it again. You are missing the point.

[PC2]

Read it again. You are missing the point.

A 3rd party could still give the investigation more credibility. He didn't say the third party was law enforcement

[Santti]

A 3rd party could still give the investigation more credibility. He didn't say the third party was law enforcement

And I didn't say the 3rd party would be law enforcement.

[PC2]

And I didn't say the 3rd party would be law enforcement.

Yes but you brought up legality, which is not the issue.

[Themius]

It's pretty amazing that anyone who investigates themselves almost always never finds they did anything wrong.

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It did to me, sad it didn't for you

There actually was an outsider who looked at their process and found that it was already balanced.

[PC2]

There actually was an outsider who looked at their process and found that it was already balanced.

Apparently not balanced enough since they are eliminating the top 10 list of approved websites.

[Triskell]

Not so much against them having it. But I'd rather point it out for what it is than let them run around waving their hands in the air and shouting about how everyone's against them.

But that is the new mantra of the Right. Everyone is out to get us. It is how they can keep the support of their under-educated base, at the same time as they make them suspicious of actual factual news. They can easily dismiss any negative news stories as the "lefty media bias" and their base will agree, ignore the negative news, and then turn to Fox news for "the real, correct news" pretty sad actually

[Themius]

Apparently not balanced enough since they are eliminating the top 10 list of approved websites.

To appease triggered conservatives... not because there was bias.

[TITAN308]

"We investigated ourselves and found ourselves did nothing wrong."

Outside of that funny meme, its a private company, couldn't give two shits what they trend.

[PC2]

To appease triggered conservatives... not because there was bias.

Sounds like we shouldn't appease any groups who get too easily triggered and complain about things being unfair.

[taliey]

Seems strange to see support for a fairness doctrine in this thread.

[Phookah]

If you care about anything on Facebook, you need to seriously get your priorities in order.
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[unbound]

Facebook said its investigation showed that conservative and liberal topics were approved as trending topics at nearly identical rates. - http://news.sky.com/story/1701253/fa...after-bias-row

Unfortunately, it is much easier to tweak the process than try to explain the nothing really bad happened after all.

Conservatives will walk away from this non-controversy (over something that almost no one uses) thinking a huge victory has been won...and that is all Facebook was looking to accomplish.

[PC2]

Conservatives will walk away from this non-controversy (over something that almost no one uses) thinking a huge victory has been won...and that is all Facebook was looking to accomplish.

Neutrality is a victory, so that makes sense.

[Endus]

Neutrality is a victory, so that makes sense.

Congratulations, you've won exactly what you already had.

Applauding this as a "victory" is pretty darned silly. There was a claim that there was bias. No evidence of such was found. They've tried to make their policy more transparent to prevent future fraudulent claims of bias. That's all that's happened.

[PC2]

Congratulations, you've won exactly what you already had.

Applauding this as a "victory" is pretty darned silly. There was a claim that there was bias. No evidence of such was found. They've tried to make their policy more transparent to prevent future fraudulent claims of bias. That's all that's happened.

Applauding neutrality is legitimate, it isn't silly.

[Endus]

Applauding neutrality is legitimate, it isn't silly.

The point, which you keep ignoring, is that you always had neutrality. You didn't "win" anything through all this. All that was demonstrated was the existence of a persecution complex, held by those who leveled the accusation in the first place.

[zenkai]

Sounds like we shouldn't appease any groups who get too easily triggered and complain about things being unfair.

if a news story came out about facebook employees censoring liberal news, I would bet you would sing a different tune.

[PC2]

The point, which you keep ignoring, is that you always had neutrality. You didn't "win" anything through all this. All that was demonstrated was the existence of a persecution complex, held by those who leveled the accusation in the first place.

I prefer to think of it as every day something works good it is a win.

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if a news story came out about facebook employees censoring liberal news, I would bet you would sing a different tune.

Nope, I want to hear everything they are saying. Why would I be afraid of their arguments?