Facebook: ‘we found no evidence of manipulation in trends’ – CNET in Spanish

Zuckerberg kept his promise to investigate the issue of trends in Facebook, but found no evidence of handling.

James Martin / CNET

a few days ago, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, promised a thorough investigation related to the alleged manipulation of Trending Topics on the social network -. that would have caused the suppression of conservative news sources in countries like US and met

in a letter to Senator US, John Thune, who chairs the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, said the company had not found any evidence on the allegations of deliberate suppression of conservative news media.

According to the internal review of the company, news of conservative media and liberals were approved as issues that were trend in rates “virtually identical”, as stated in the letter sent to senator.

Several TV presenters conservative media made statements about the bias that would have meant for this manipulation of media sources within Facebook trends, which are only available in the US and the United Kingdom. This prompted Zuckerberg to meet with them to hear their grievances and address the issue.

In a post published on the Web site Facebook the company also responded to the senator about the allegations of impartiality in the selection of trends, ensuring that there had been found to exist suppression of information for political reasons or because it was private sources. “It was confirmed that most of the issues mentioned in reports media were included as trends on multiple occasions,” said the company.

All this research has its origin in a report that claimed that Facebook used “content curators” that depuraban the issues that later became trend on the website.

“These improvements and guarantees that we will implement are designed not only to show that Facebook remains a platform that is open and welcomes all groups and individuals, but also to restore any loss of confidence in the Trending Topics, “the company said.

despite the report’s findings, Facebook says it can not rule out the possibility that improper actions isolated or even an unintentional bias occurred, and therefore intends to undertake a number of changes to minimize any risks involved in human judgment within the Trending Topics daily.