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There was also this business about removing fact-checking of a bunk climate science article at the behest of a Republican congressman: https://heated.world/p/f
by twic 6y ago
There was also this business about removing fact-checking of a bunk climate science article at the behest of a Republican congressman:
https://heated.world/p/fact-check-of-viral-climate-misinformation https://heated.world/p/fact-check-of-viral-climate-misinform...
My interpretation of this is not that Facebook has a conservative bias (what does it even mean for a company to have a bias?), but that Facebook's leaders are well aware that the company are extremely vulnerable to regulation, and that keeping the current administration sweet is a good way of evading regulation. If the US enters 2021 with a Democratic administration not hamstrung by a Republican congress, i would expect the apparent bias to evaporate or reverse.
- munificent 6y ago> My interpretation of this is not that Facebook has a conservative bias (what does it even mean for a company to have a bias?) It would mean that the company's actions benefit members of one side of the political spectrum more than the other. We're free to speculate about why a company's actions might do that and whether it's deliberate or an emergent consequence of some other intention, but I think it's fairly straightforward to define what bias would mean.