Friday, May 20, 2016

Is Facebook too powerful for its own good?


MASHABLE


For nearly two weeks, Facebook has been at the center of a media firestorm about whether its "human editors" have been inappropriately tampering with the "Trending Topics" seen by millions.
A U.S. senator has pressured Facebook for answers. Top Facebook executives have met with leading conservative figures like Glenn Beck to assure them that no systemic liberal bias reaches the users of its social network. And CEO Mark Zuckerberg has put his own integrity on the line to ensure everything is above board.
This is Facebook in 2016: A sprawling $300 billion giant with 1.6 billion users and such intense scrutiny on it that even an unsubstantiated rumor about a possible political bias by one contracted editor managing a section many users don't even look at can set the political and media world on fire for weeks. 

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