Facebook Choked Traffic to Mother Jones & Other Sites While Amplifying Right-Wing Misinformation [I Am a Democrat]
Democracy Now
October 29, 2020
Big Tech CEOs were grilled Wednesday about how they moderate election disinformation and extremist content, and were accused by Republicans of censoring conservatives.
Overlooked were reports that Facebook designed changes to it's news feed algorithm in 2017 to reduce the visibility of left-leaning news sites like Mother Jones.
"The fact that we are trying to do everything we can to get the truth out and Facebook is deliberately sabotaging our readership is so disturbing, at the time that Facebook is spreading all this dangerous information by conservatives, by President Trump," responds Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones magazine, who has been reporting extensively on the 2020 election.
Read more, listen to Democracy Now interview with Ari Berman,
Google:
"Facebook Choked Traffic to Mother Jones & Other Sites While Amplifying Right-Wing Disinformation"
October 29, 2020
Big Tech CEOs were grilled Wednesday about how they moderate election disinformation and extremist content, and were accused by Republicans of censoring conservatives.
Overlooked were reports that Facebook designed changes to it's news feed algorithm in 2017 to reduce the visibility of left-leaning news sites like Mother Jones.
"The fact that we are trying to do everything we can to get the truth out and Facebook is deliberately sabotaging our readership is so disturbing, at the time that Facebook is spreading all this dangerous information by conservatives, by President Trump," responds Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones magazine, who has been reporting extensively on the 2020 election.
Read more, listen to Democracy Now interview with Ari Berman,
Google:
"Facebook Choked Traffic to Mother Jones & Other Sites While Amplifying Right-Wing Disinformation"
