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Published in TZ Latest News 17 May, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Instant Analysis: Is Facebook Filtering News Based on Political Bias?

A recent Gizmodo article, citing claims from anonymous former contractors on Facebook‘s (NASDAQ: FB) Trending Topics team, has raised concerns of the social network filtering news headlines based on the political views of the curators. Those curators scan through trending topics that Facebook’s algorithm ranks by overall engagement, write new headlines for each topic, add three-sentence summaries of the story the topic is pegged to, and attach images

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