Paul L. Caron
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

The IRS Scandal, Day 1097

IRS Logo 2New York Post editorial, Facebook’s Faked ‘Trending News’ Is a Warning Not to Trust Silicon Valley:

Well, so much for Facebook’s claims to be an honest information broker: Turns out its list of “trending” topics comes with a hefty political bias.

The site Gizmodo on Monday reported what it had heard from some of the “news curators” who actually create the “trending” feed — which only starts with topics flagged by a computer algorithm as to what users are actually posting about.

The exposé reveals one level of bias imposed by management — and another from the peons hired to do the work.

Several curators cited routine nixing of right-of-center topics — news about Mitt Romney, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and even Lois Lerner, the face of the IRS scandal.

Ironic: IRS employees used their power to suppress righty speech, and Facebook then suppressed the fact its users cared about it . . .

https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2016/05/the-irs-scandal-day-1097.html

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