Facebook, bias, and transparency: My trip to Silicon Valley

On Wednesday, I was honored to be included among a small group of conservative leaders and journalists who met with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and other Facebook executives about the recent Trending Topics "scandal." For those who have not followed it, the controversy surrounds a May 9 report by the online tech journal Gizmodo in which former Facebook "news curators" claimed to have routinely suppressed conservative stories from the list of Trending Topics that appears on Facebook. Not s

On Wednesday, I was honored to be included among a small group of conservative leaders and journalists who met with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and other Facebook executives about the recent Trending Topics "scandal." For those who have not followed it, the controversy surrounds a May 9 report by the online tech journal Gizmodo in which former Facebook "news curators" claimed to have routinely suppressed conservative stories from the list of Trending Topics that appears on Facebook. Not s…