Bias Facebook

In A recent article on CNN, the address the accusations that have been put on Facebook by a former Facebook contractor saying he witness other Facebook employees suppress the news about popular conservation topics from the trending sections and have more liberal viewpoints picked for the trending section. “The anonymous quotes in the report contributed to a long-held view among some prominent conservatives that Facebook, Twitter and other technology companies are infected by liberal bias.” Now no one really knows for sure if these accusations are true but Facebook is not really denying the suppression claims, this is a huge problem for the world especially during an election. More than one billion people are active on Facebook and use their features such as their “trending” section to see a lot of interesting articles and what is really going on in the world, which is a great resource, but when the articles that are being actually shown are bias towards one way it can really alter peoples views on a topic. Not knowing whether or not the information that your reading is bias or not from a website billions of people use is a major problem, “Humans, unlike algorithms, have hearts. And the company can't know for sure what was in the hearts of the workers who were selecting certain stories while rejecting others.”

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/09/media/facebook-trending-conservative-news/index.html