Entire Facebook Trending News Team Fired Following Breitbart Coverage

Breitbart ^ | August | by ALLUM BOKHARI

[Hojczyk]

Facebook has fired its Trending News team, responsible for curating the social media network’s “Trending News” list, after Breitbart Tech began to reveal their progressive biases last month. The team is set to be replaced by a team of engineers managing an algorithm.

Facebook’s Trending News feature is supposed to present users with the most popular news topics being discussed across the platform. But a Gizmodo exposé in May revealed that Trending News operated much like a traditional newsroom, with a team of “curators” selecting stories they considered newsworthy.

It was later revealed that the team artificially injected stories that were not trending into the Trending News feed, and routinely suppressed topics that were of interest to conservatives. In response, Republican Senator John Thune, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, sent a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers.

But the focus on Trending News masks an even bigger problem for Facebook: bias in its system of punishments and suspensions. While the social network is usually quick to reinstate accounts that have been wrongly suspended, its record of suspicious suspensions of high-profile conservatives and critics of progressivism is easily equal to Twitter’s.

[wardaddy]

These tech guys were already lefties

Several are red diaper grandbabies

[Yashcheritsiy]

It may come as a surprise to no one, but it seems that now, if you try to link to a Breitbart article on FB, they *will not* present the usual “preview with picture” that FB usually does.

Technically, they’re not censoring BB, but it does make it less likely that people will click on a post.

[dp0622]

Adelle Nazarian

[dp0622]

Adelle Nazarian

[FrdmLvr]

They didn’t throw you in Facebook jail? Lol!

[grania]

My guess would be that it’s costing Zuckerberg money as ever more people get fed up with the Facebook attitude.

[Gaffer]

The urge to promulgate my meager and perhaps recalcitrant life on Social Media, offering up all my inane musings and begs to be noticed and acknowledged has never been a priority.

To me, validation comes from within. Not that of hangers on.

[cymbeline]

I’ve said this before. Google’s browser, which I use, puts up icons of sites I’ve recently gone to. It never puts DRUDGEREPORT in there (but it does FR).

[tang-soo]

I think it's more than supressing content. Something I've noticed lately about facebook. Usually when posting an article link, facebook trolls for images embedded in the article and will choose one of these images to highlight the article. The user is provided an interface to select an alternative image or remove it all together. Also, the headline of the article, which is usually included is suppressed - only the naked link is inlcuded.

When posting articles of a anti Clinton nature, I've noticed there are no images included or title. This greatly reduces the attraction to the post.

[Wonder Warthog]

"There’s not much of a market out there in the private sector for people whose primary “skillset” is manipulating, concealing and twisting information. "

Lawyer?? "Journalist"??

[ladyjane]

There’s not much of a market out there in the private sector for people whose primary “skillset” is manipulating, concealing and twisting information.

There's a huge market out there. Our government, our politicians, the entire media.

[Mr. Jeeves]

All the net- billionaires have become drooling synchophants to far-Left insanity.

I think they have all been threatened. Because they really "didn't build that", and what they have can be taken away by government with shocking ease.

[ridesthemiles]

The people who most control what the public sees on the media is the NEWS EDITOR. The anchors only read what they are TOLD to read. The nameless & faceless NEWS EDITOR is the real PUPPETEER.....

[silverleaf]

New employees for Breitbart
Bet they have some interesting stories to share

[Neidermeyer]

So what was reported to be “trending” really wasn’t trending at all. It was politically “shaped” to give the impression of trending in order to influence and manipulate people’s opinions. In other words, it was propaganda.
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Combine that with the way they suppress conservative news before it can begin to “trend” by allowing progressives to label anything conservative as racist or “threatening” to get it pulled... and you’ve got 90%+ of conservative news shut down on that platform.

[Ms Mable]

Entire Facebook Trending News Team Fired Following Breitbart Coverage
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The entire Facebook Trending News Team shuffled their chairs and are now a team of engineers managing an algorithm. I have no doubt this is what happened and they probably got a raise.

Smoke and mirrors.....

[polymuser]

I try to tell my older friends who use Facebook what they’re connecting into, what they’re enabling. Just get that “Ummm...” stare. Meaning: “Gimme my bread and circuses and STFU about your political whatever!”

[Lurkinanloomin]

I get the same thing sometimes.
I just try to wake up as many as I can.
Some have drank so much of the Ministry of Propaganda Kool-Aid that they are beyond hope until all of the electronics stop working.

[Neidermeyer]

My guess would be that it’s costing Zuckerberg money as ever more people get fed up with the Facebook attitude.
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I’m going to enjoy shorting FaceBook when it starts to decline...

[exit82]

Another Trump Effect.