Facebook Dislikes Conservatives, and That's OK

It appears that stories in Facebook’s trending news module weren’t always quite as trending as they seemed. Stories that interested conservative readers on topics like CPAC and Mitt Romney were suppressed, while stories about Syria and Black Lives Matter were artificially injected into the stream. This wasn’t corporate policy so much as the editorial decisions of young staffers who leaned liberal, and chose stories accordingly.

As you can imagine, this created quite a stir among conservatives, and now Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune has sent a letter to Facebook asking questions about how these decisions were made. Conservative media figures like National Review’s Charles Cooke and the Washington Examiner’s Phil Klein have opined that the senator should lay off.