Facebook engineers have proposed measures to suppress content on the platform that attempts to convince people to shift their viewpoints away from the left, as revealed by photographs of internal documents and messages obtained by Project Veritas. The photos show that several prominent right-leaning Facebook pages were marked with code that appears to have handicapped the pages.
Facebook has long faced accusations of left-leaning bias, underscored by the overwhelmingly leftist leanings of its staff. While the company has maintained that personal biases do not seep into its content policing, the documents show the engineers repeatedly conflating right-leaning arguments, some perhaps crudely presented, with “hate speech” or “trolling.”
