# Facebook regularly suppressed conservative new **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 11, 2016, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-regularly-suppressed-conservative-new/754527 "2016-05-11T08:29:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-regularly-suppressed-conservative-new/754527/21 "2016-05-16T21:08:06Z")
So right now in my trending stories I see: “William Kristol: Breitbart News Calls Weekly Standard’s Editor ‘Renegade Jew’ in Headline” and “Donald Trump: GOP Presidential Candidate Calls Sen. Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ in Interview” Does that help, Republicans? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-regularly-suppressed-conservative-new/754527/22 "2016-05-21T20:11:47Z")
I block it all out now with Facebook Purity but when I saw trending news before it was almost always entertainment news or some general type of “breaking news” type stories. I think FB has the right to block anything they wish to block. Why should they be expected to promote stories like “STUNNER: Obama Names Transgender to Faith Post”? or “Elton John’s panties in a bunch over N.C. bathroom law”? This is the first two headlines I saw from WND. ---
**Author:** ![Snupzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Snupzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snupzilla)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-regularly-suppressed-conservative-new/754527/23 "2016-05-21T20:31:42Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > So sayeth [Gizmodo](http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006). > > What do you think about this? > > Personally, I don’t have a problem with sites having biases, but only as long as they’re open and honest about it. Facebook’s trending news is supposed to be user driven so suppressing stories isn’t cricket in my book. Facebook should fire the coders responsible for this. They are clearly not doing a very good job on my feed. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-regularly-suppressed-conservative-new/754527/24 "2016-05-21T22:12:29Z")
They filtered out nonsense for fact i.e. they performed a form of Journalism. Even if it’s bias, they are a private company and free to do what they want to do with regard to news they curate. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-regularly-suppressed-conservative-new/754527/25 "2016-05-21T22:35:12Z")
My biggest concern with this is it creates an echo chamber. A good news feed should have liberal and conservative news stories. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-regularly-suppressed-conservative-new/754527/26 "2016-05-22T00:01:50Z")
Google is already filtering out biased “news” sources. Why should Facebook pass through ideological sites which try to call themselves news? ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-regularly-suppressed-conservative-new/754527/27 "2016-05-22T02:39:01Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > > [@control-z](#): > > > > It would be nice if Facebook news stories were balanced (and they may be for all I know.) But if they’re not, FB is under no legal obligation to be balanced. Anyone who depends on FB for news is not that wise anyway IMO. > > Indeed, but only as long as they’re open and honest about it. They have a legal obligation to be open and honest about the mechanics of their site? ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-regularly-suppressed-conservative-new/754527/28 "2016-05-22T04:43:58Z")
> [@Snupzilla](#): > > Facebook should fire the coders responsible for this. They are clearly not doing a very good job on my feed. You have to manually filter out your crazy friends and relatives. This is about those trending articles. It’s kinda news to me that people pay attention to them. I don’t think I’ve ever clicked one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-regularly-suppressed-conservative-new/754527.md?page=1)