Yesterday, a former journalist who worked in Facebook's news editorial department, along with several colleagues who also worked with him, decided to tell the public about their experience while working at the company,
So they told Michael Nunez, a reporter for Gizmodo, that some of the Facebook staff responsible for how stories appeared in Facebook's "Trending" section were systematically ignoring the actual trending topics, inserting other stories into the Trending widget.
Former Facebook employees reported that most employees ignored stories that would be of interest to the site's right-wing or conservative readership. Some of these stories included articles by Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz, Steven Crowder, and many other conservative columnists.
Furthermore, these same news editors were instructed by Facebook to ignore any news about Facebook itself, it was a Trending topic.
Of course, all of these direct accusations of active censorship by Facebook are not true according to the company. The company stated that it has guidelines governing how articles are distributed.
However, seeing that the criticism from all technological media and users does not stop, Facebook's Vice President of News Tom Stocky issued a new statement in which he made it clear that the company does not engage in such practices.
