Facebook will apparently modify how its trending topics work after this. So I'm leaning to believe that it was indeed biased (whether intentionally or not throu

Facebook will apparently modify how its trending topics work after this. So I'm leaning to believe that it was indeed biased (whether intentionally or not through the types of people Facebook hired, that's another issue). What's funny to me is that about a year ago Politico had an article [1] about how Google can influence elections, when to me the elephant in the room was actually Facebook. I have no doubt Google can influence elections (especially through its corporate media "AMP partners" [2] that get shown in a carousel on Google above everything else, and through automated top answers), but at least on Google you have to show some kind of intent when searching for something. I'm not going to see Hillary Clinton articles when searching for a new laptop. On Facebook, stuff gets pushed to you potentially trying to change your views every day. So I do think Facebook is the bigger danger for this sort of thing. [1] http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-could-rig-the-2016-election-121548 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-co... [2] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-10/07/google-accelerated-mobile-pages-amp http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-10/07/google-accele...