Much has been made of Silicon Valley’s liberal bias — and for good reason.
Facebook was caught suppressing topics related to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the Drudge Report, and others. The social media giant’s content curators acted “subjectively” to prioritize left-leaning news sources at the expense of their right-leaning counterparts.
And Facebook is hardly alone.
According to a recent Vice Media report, Twitter has often engaged in so-called “shadow banning,” whereby company officials suppress certain Republican accounts on the social media platform’s search function.
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