Republicans hate Fairness Doctrine. Except when Facebook decides what headlines you see.

[DetlefK]

http://www.salon.com/2016/05/11/the_rights_absurd_facebook_freakout_how_the_uproar_over_trending_topics_exposes_its_gargantuan_victim_complex/

Over the last week, Gizmodo has published a couple of stories tracing the combination of computer algorithm and human decision-making that decides what topics appear in the widget. The stories interviewed anonymous former Facebook workers who claimed that the company showed bias against conservative news sources such as Breitbart and the Daily Caller. Stories from those sites were regularly ignored unless a more mainstream source like the New York Times was also covering them.

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On Tuesday, Sen. John Thune (R-SD), who heads the Senate’s Commerce Committee, demanded that Facebook provide him with information about how it determines what news goes in the Trending Topics session, and whether the company is purposely repressing conservative news and sources.

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The irony is that conservative opposition to the Fairness Doctrine was rooted in the idea that it allowed government to act like a news editor, a function better left to Republicans’ beloved free-market corporations. Now with Facebook, a free-market corporation, doing just that, conservatives can’t wait to get the government to force it to stop.


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May I suggest a sentence to include in Facebook's answer?

"The conservatives on this committee will no doubt support Facebook's stance to let the free market decide which news and stories it provides to the people."

[Human101948]

1. Another election year ploy to rile up the yahoos...

It's the old liberal media outrage recycled.

Surprising that Republicans are going after a private corporation and trying to dictate how they run their business.

On what grounds?

Will they go after Fox News for their selective and biased reporting?

[liberal N proud]

2. It's OK when FOX only shows certain headlines

There has always been a double standard when it comes to the right in everything.

[Democat]

3. Why is Fox News not being investigated? They claim "Fair and Balanced"

This is an abuse of power by the right wingers in the Senate.

Why are they investigating Facebook and expecting Facebook to be neutral but not Fox News?