{"id":14048,"date":"2016-05-10T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:46:28","slug":"facebook-censors-trending-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/facebook-censors-trending-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Censors Trending News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/051016_1443_FacebookCen1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facebook has a trending news section that shows users the stories that are generating a lot of discussion. It&#8217;s a big driver of traffic to web pages and, according to Michael Nunez, it&#8217;s being censored:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The trending news isn&#8217;t just an algorithm. Humans see what stories are doing well and then decide what to call &#8216;trending&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>However, the people who have made those decisions in the past have often been liberal in their political outlook and have suppressed conservative news stories.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook says that this isn&#8217;t a directive from them, and that they were unaware of this practice.<\/li>\n<li>What does seem to be an official practice, however, is to tell trending news curators to promote certain stories \u2013 even if they aren&#8217;t actually trending.<\/li>\n<li>This is because sometimes major stories \u2013 like the Syrian civil war \u2013 don&#8217;t see a lot of discussion on Facebook, but the company wanted to be taken seriously as a news source. Such stories are thus artificially promoted it as &#8216;trending&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook also officially suppresses any trending stories that report on Facebook itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After this article was published it became a trending topic on Facebook so there&#8217;s\u2026that. Read more about what this says about Facebook as a media company, and Facebook&#8217;s official response over <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has a trending news section that shows users the stories that are generating a lot of discussion. It&#8217;s a big driver of traffic to web pages and, according to Michael Nunez, it&#8217;s being censored: The trending news isn&#8217;t just an algorithm. Humans see what stories are doing well and then decide what to call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/051016_1443_FacebookCen1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14052,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions\/14052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}