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Oh, come on. Even according to the article, all the employee proved is that they're not unfairly penalizing right-wing (or even non-left-leaning) accounts. Th

Oh, come on. Even according to the article, all the employee proved is that they're not unfairly penalizing right-wing (or even non-left-leaning) accounts. That isn't favoritism, that's applying the rules consistently.

enragedcacti 6y ago
From an article linked from the original [1]: > The list and descriptions of the escalations, leaked to NBC News, showed that Facebook employees in the misinformation escalations team, with direct oversight from company leadership, deleted strikes during the review process that were issued to some conservative partners for posting misinformation over the last six months. The discussions of the reviews showed that Facebook employees were worried that complaints about Facebook's fact-checking could go public and fuel allegations that the social network was biased against conservatives. Deleting strikes for the purpose of not seeming biased is bias. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sensitive-claims-bias-facebook-relaxed-misinformation-rules-conservative-pages-n1236182 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sensitive-claims-bias...