Article 1D86G Facebook denies censoring conservative stories from trending topics

Facebook denies censoring conservative stories from trending topics

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Alex Hern
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Social network has found no evidence that allegations it ignores news from right-wing sites are true, says head of search

Facebook has denied reports that it censors conservative publications from its "trending topics".

A report by Gizmodo said staff who aggregated content for Facebook were encouraged to ignore news from fringe conservative sites such as Breitbart until it appeared on more mainstream sites such as CNN.

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