Facebook Ignored Its Own Rules to Avoid Conservative Criticism, a Document Says
Facebook decided to decrease its recommendations of politically partisan pages ahead of the 2020 elections but left open a loophole that right-wing pundits like Ben Shapiro kept managing to slip through, one internal presentation says. Though many Facebook employees were “expressing discomfort” over this glaring exception, its policy and public relations team recommended against fixing it, fearful—once again—they’d be bombarded by censorship allegations, an employee wrote.
