Radio host Glenn Beck and American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks are some of the conservative leaders Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to meet with this week.
The meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, follows a report that Facebook employed bias in the way it selected stories for its “Trending Topics” feature. A report in the tech blog Gizmodo claimed that Facebook downplays conservative news subjects. Facebook denies that report, which relied upon a single anonymous individual with self-described conservative leanings.
Nonetheless, Zuckerberg said the Menlo Park, California, company is investigating the matter and has invited conservative leaders to meet with him. Others invited include Zac Moffatt, the co-founder of conservative technology company Targeted Victory, and Dana Perino, co-host of The Five on Fox News Channel.
“I want to have a direct conversation about what Facebook stands for and how we can be sure our platform stays as open as possible,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post last week.
Facebook has said that a series of checks and balances — involving both software formulas and humans — ensures that stories displayed in the “trending topics” section aren’t biased. In a blog post last week, the company also linked to a 28-page internal document it uses to determine trending topics, after the Guardian published a similar document that was leaked to it.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
I think it is time to respond by leaving Facebook. Liberals just lie when their bias and manipulation of facts against Conservative or Christian ideas is discovered. One would think that a business that depends on traffic would treat all users the same, The disrespect and mistreatment of those who do not agree with the liberal agenda should be met with traffic reductions and disenrollment’s. There are other social media outlets that have ethics, honesty and sound business practices.
Sorry but the media is liberal and Hillary Clinton wants it that way, Obama wants to shut down FOX news if he could but first Obama and Hillary will gets our guns taken away clearly you cant have a socialist country when its people still have guns…
We did that 4 years ago…We got rid of all of our Personal and Business Accounts with FARCEBOOK….and have NOT MISSED THEM….
Going through the motions to make it seem that they are impartial. Yeah, right.
Glenn Beck is not a conservative, His radio empire, based on the facade, is collapsing. Zuckerberg is simply allying himself with the Utah bloc. Anyone who wants objectivity, let alone conservatism, steers clear of Facebook. Anyone who wants objectivity, let alone conservatism, steers clear of Glenn Beck.
Jim
Well if this liberal moron wants to REALLY prove something he can take the hold off my account and reinstate me. If not, then he’s a liar and proven right by all conservatives. hey when I read almost weekly of conservative comments that are openly censored on the “What do you say” portion of FB, I KNOW they are censoring! So they can stop lying as of 60 days ago!
Got tired of of being Censored and Blocked over 4 years ago….So we canceled all of our Personal and Business Accounts…