During the first week, perhaps the first day, Facebook introduced this, I noticed it pushing this anti Ann Coulter story, saying somebody made her look stupid. The perspective was completely biased. I knew then that Facebook would push a left-wing agenda in its news selections.
Comment: It’s just as one might have suspected… what Controlling the Narrative looks like in a post-newspaper age.
“They would regularly avoid sites like World Star Hip Hop, The Blaze, and Breitbart, but were never explicitly told to suppress those outlets.”
News curators also have the power to “deactivate” (or blacklist) a trending topic—a power that those we spoke to exercised on a daily basis. A topic was often blacklisted if it didn’t have at least three traditional news sources covering it, but otherwise the protocol was murky—meaning a curator could ostensibly blacklist a topic without a particularly good reason for doing so. (Those we interviewed said they didn’t see any signs that blacklisting was being abused or used inappropriately.)
