Facebook accused of censoring conservatives, report says

Curators of the social media company's 'trending news' sidebar purposely leave out stories from rightwing sites, a former employee has alleged

Facebook's trending bar deliberately suppresses conservative news, according to a new report.

Facebook, now arguably the most important distributor of news online, has cultivated the idea that its bar is an impartial algorithm that responds to "likes" and gives users only what they've indicated they want.