Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Facebook audit of alleged anti-conservative bias fails to pinpoint any | Ars Technica

Also see Conservatives, liberals slam Facebook bias audit | Politico
""Facebook's policies and their application have the potential to restrict free expression," Kyl notes. "Given the platform's popularity and ubiquity, this is a danger that must be taken seriously." The platform has made some baby steps toward transparency that help, he concludes, but "[t]here is still significant work to be done to satisfy the concerns we heard from conservatives."

"While we err on the side of free speech, there are critical exceptions: we don't allow content that might encourage offline harm or is intended to intimidate, exclude, or silence people," Facebook communications VP Nick Clegg wrote in a company blog post. "And we work to slow and reduce the spread of content like debunked hoaxes and clickbait by downranking it in News Feed. We know we need to listen more as we work to strike the right balance with these policies.""
Facebook audit of alleged anti-conservative bias fails to pinpoint any | Ars Technica

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