Southern Beale reported this morning on a Gizmodo article alleging that news "curators" at Facebook had blocked news of interest to conservatives. (
SFGate.com had the story.) She said (after posting that day's newsfeed):
Forget the liberal or conservative bias part here. Does anyone see any actual news in this thing? Good lord, it’s like People magazine: celebrity news and human interest BS. It’s always been this way. Every time I bother to notice my newsfeed, which is rarely, it’s some Kardashian bullshit or something about a waterskiing squirrel. Not even joking here. It’s not news, people!
Doctor Science (
Obsidian Wings) had
a different reaction:
The trouble with the conservative news sites the Trending curators are discriminating against isn't that they're conservative, it's that they're bad: too much of their "news" is actually deceptive propaganda.
Here's an example. I went over to Breitbart.com this morning, looked at the front page, and picked out the item with the most comments. This story would probably be showing up as Trending on Facebook, if that list wasn't curated: Paul Ryan Says U.S. Must Admit Muslim Migrants, Sends Kids to Private School that Screens Them Out.
This article, credited to Julia Hahn, is both deceptive and poisonous.
It's deceptive because takes some actual facts, twists the way they're described, then puts them together with unrelated facts to be as inflamatory as possible.
[emphasis in original]
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