Mark Zuckerberg to meet with Glenn Beck

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Source: USAToday

SAN FRANCISCO — Conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck says he hopes to meet this week with Mark Zuckerberg to discuss allegations of political bias in how the giant social network selects the most important news for its 1.6 billion users. "How does a company who allowed voices to be heard in Iran and Egypt which sparked revolution silence voices of anyone here?" Beck wrote in a Facebook post. "I am trying to rearrange my schedule to see if I can make it. It would be interesting to look him in the eye as he explains and a win for all voices if we can come to a place of real trust with this powerful tool." Beck is one of a dozen conservatives including Fox News' The Five co-host Dana Perino and Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, scheduled to meet Wednesday with the Facebook CEO at the company's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters.

A report in technology blog Gizmodo last week that accused Facebook of suppressing conservative viewpoints set off a firestorm in conservative circles. The allegation: Facebook news editors suppressed conservative articles and news outlets in the "Trending Topics" feature that highlights the most popular news on Facebook.


"A lot of people at Facebook are working to figure out if there are parts of the Trending Topics process that are broken — and if so how they should be fixed. Though we've found no evidence the report is true, it is deeply troubling, and if there is a problem, we want to uncover it and correct it," Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president of public policy, said in a Facebook post over the weekend.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/05/16/mark-zuckerberg-meet-glenn-beck-conservatives-political-bias/84441480/

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Maybe conservatives aren't showing up as news because most of their crap is lies, religion or opinion. No one seems to know the difference anymore and they think it's news. Of course, this is just a way for a moron like Glenn Beck to get attention so the few feeble minded listeners he has left call up their friends and tell them to listen to his garbage again.

[safeinOhio]

1. Sure,

right after you fix FOX news.

[Skittles]

2. why do people keep legitimizing these nutcases

seriously - WHY?

[mdbl]

3. I agree

makes me want to never use Facebook again.

[MariaThinks]

12. good question

[brucefan]

4. "Trying to rearrange my schedule"

Self-important scumbag.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Why is this an issue?

Fox News does what it wants

Why can't Facebook?

[greymattermom]

7. That's probably what he'll hear from Zuckerberg.

Mark Zuckerberg may educate Glen Beck.

[Kelvin Mace]

9. Why would anyone want to meet a barking mad hate monger?

I am sure with his money, Zuckerberg could meet someone more respectable, like Charles Manson.

[octoberlib]

10. Why is Zuckerberg wasting his time with these whackjobs?

Glenn Beck and the rest of his ilk use false claims of persecution to get attention and fire up their base. The poor , wittle GOP is always a victim.

[yellowcanine]

11. I don't get it. There is RW crap on FB all the time. Including Beck's gold investment schemes.

FB is crawling with RW clickbait bs.