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Facebook Audit Proves Bias Against Conservatives, Company Makes Changes

Tim Pool Daily News

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Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.47.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Facebook Audit Proves Bias Against Conservatives, Company Makes Changes. After several years of complains from conservatives about a biases from the platform Facebook has officially announced changes to assuage the concerns from right wing groups and conservatives.One change seems inconsequential but will allow certain conservatives groups to finally advertise on Facebook. In the end though Facebook is reluctant to admit the bias exists or existed and many in media seem to as well.But based on the fact that several staff have confirmed the bias, facebook initiated an external audit, and then agreed to make several changes to their staff and policies after complaints we can see there was a bias. Whether it was intentional or not is another issue.The audit however did upset many on the left and far left who for some reason refuse to believe all the evidence that has existed for the past three years. Strangely the story itself was broken by Gizmodo.In the story I also discuss the work of Dr. Robert Epstein as he was recently smeared by Hillary Clinton in her row with Donald Trump over google's pro left wing biases. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Once again, I open a segment with this story from May of 2016.

0:05.4

Gizmodo. Former Facebook workers, we routinely suppressed conservative news. A story from Gizmodo

0:11.8

with 2.7 million views where they actually state it was an issue of biases from the staff members.

0:18.8

It's a fact. We know it. Staff members have come out and told us. Well, here's the big update.

0:25.4

Since the complaints have been ever increasing and the issue has become very controversial with

0:30.8

the left saying it doesn't exist and journalists repeatedly denying it exists even though it was

0:36.0

Gizmodo that broke the story. Facebook conducted an independent review. They brought on a third

0:42.0

party to survey people to figure out what the problem was and why don't conservatives trust Facebook.

0:48.3

In the end, a report was published showing that there is a growing concern for specific reasons

0:54.3

without overtly admitting Facebook has bias. However, Facebook did make a change according to

1:01.9

the third party reviewer that could help pro-life ads be placed on the platform. To me, this says,

1:08.4

at least to a small degree, they have acknowledged the complaints were legitimate and changed the

1:15.7

rules because of it. They're going to be implementing changes to better accommodate conservatives.

1:22.7

I don't know how else you take this other than Facebook heard what they said and thought to

1:27.5

ourselves we need to change some of the things on this platform because of a complaints from

1:33.8

conservatives. They are accommodating the conservatives after the conservatives complained. After news came

1:40.1

out, I'll tell you this. To me, the change in advertising that benefits pro-life advertisements as

1:46.2

they acknowledge the independent reviewer acknowledges is the tiniest morsel of proof that there was a bias.

1:53.0

One of the biggest complaints from organizations was that their political ads were being blocked,

1:57.5

but pro-choice ads were allowed. It was something about the format so now it's weird but I guess

2:03.0

what they're going to allow is tubes. But yes, it's even acknowledged by wired. The change was made

2:10.3

because of conservative complaints and this benefits pro-life ads. Look, nobody wants to admit it.

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