Facebook reportedly suppressed news from conservative sites

Facebook reportedly suppressed news from conservative sites

It's only fitting that Twitter should have listed "Former Facebook Workers" as trending, because Facebook initially did not. 

In fact, former Facebook workers say that the social media giant's managers instruct online curators to manipulate news feeds and trending lists to cut or leave out conservative content, according to a Gizmodo.com report that doesn't identify its sources by name. The report published Monday also says curators were told to insert certain articles into the trending list, whether or not those items were popular enough to merit the treatment.

London mayor slams Trump for ‘ignorant’ view of Islam
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London mayor slams Trump for ‘ignorant’ view of Islam

Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump for an "ignorant" view of Islam, after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee suggested Khan could be exempted from his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.

Last year Trump proposed "a total and complete" ban on foreign Muslims entering the U.S. "until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on."

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