Allegations against Facebook that its trending news curators routinely censored or suppressed conservative-oriented topics have prompted a formal inquiry from the U.S. Senate.
Tech website Gizmodo on Monday published the accusations of what amounts to liberal bias in the social network's influential trending news feed, which is or was supposedly automatically compiled by an algorithm.
Facebook has categorically denied the Gizmodo scoop.
According to what an unnamed whistleblower told Gizmodo, however, right-leaning topics were manually prevented from showing up in the Facebook trending section, despite actually organically trending among users of the world's largest social media site, the Inquisitr previously explained.
The Gizmodo piece described the Facebook procedures that allegedly blacklisted news that would be of interest to politically conservative (and presumably non-conservative) readers, according to the insider.
"The former curator was so troubled by the omissions that they kept a running log of them at the time; this individual provided the notes to Gizmodo. Among the deep-sixed or suppressed topics on the list: former IRS official Lois Lerner, who was accused by Republicans of inappropriately scrutinizing conservative groups; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; popular conservative news aggregator the Drudge Report; Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who was murdered in 2013; and former Fox News contributor Steven Crowder...Another former curator agreed that the operation had an aversion to right-wing news sources."