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Facebook Rebuts Criticisms About a Bias Against Conservatives

Response follows report that site suppressed stories of interest to conservative readers

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Allegations that Facebook Inc. workers manipulated for political purposes the social network’s ranking of popular topics triggered new anxieties about the influence of Silicon Valley giants through both their software and their employees.

Facebook denied a report that its “news curators” altered its list of “trending topics” by suppressing conservative viewpoints and injecting news stories that weren’t popular.

Tom Stocky,...

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