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Is Facebook Censoring Conservative News?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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Contracted curators who operate Facebook's influential "trending news" section say they regularly censor some conservative news organizations from being included in the section.

Facebook launched its trending news section in 2014, allowing its millions of Facebook users to easily scroll through some of the day's hottest news stories by simply looking at the upper left-hand corner of their Facebook feed.

As over 600 million people see a news story on Facebook every week, the trending news section has become one of the most prominent vehicles for news consumption today.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/former-facebook-employees-unmask-trending-news-blacklist-of-conservative-media-163456/#rWbWTfDE1mmr7ID1.99

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