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Business Matters: Is Facebook biased?

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21/08/2019 GMT

Is Facebook biased?

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Is Facebook biased?

A report accuses the company of having an anti-conservative bias.

Former US Republican senator Jon Kyl says he has spent the last year compiling a report into how the algorithms on the site work, that’s machine code that can supposedly predict what you might like to read or see, and he says Facebook has “significant work to do” in order to satisfy concerns it has an anti-conservative bias. So how much weight is this report being given?
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