Facebook Workers Were Told to Suppress Conservative News Stories

The lame stream media strikes again!

Screen Shot 2016-05-09 at 9.57.57 AMHear that? It’s the sound of millions of right wing commenters losing their minds as they read that Facebook routinely suppressed conservative news stories.

According to Gizmodo, several former news curators for Facebook’s “trending” news section admitted that their bosses asked them to ignore stories on people like Rand Paul and Mitt Romney, despite the fact that those stories were organically trending.

“Depending on who was on shift, things would be blacklisted or trending,” one of the anonymous former curators told Gizmodo.

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