Facebook employees say content rules aren't always enforced for Breitbart and other right-wing publishers for fear of public blowback, internal documents show
Note: Audience size is based on Facebook internal metric VPV, or Viewport Views, which measures how many times content is seen by users.
“It is not news to us that Facebook has effectively suppressed our content,” the Breitbart spokeswoman said. “Still, we’ve been crushing our establishment news competitors in engagement for years, so imagine what would happen if Facebook treated Breitbart equally with other top news publishers.
In a town hall, Mr. Zuckerberg said Breitbart wasn’t punished for the video because that was its only infraction in a 90-day period, according to internal chats describing the meeting. A Facebook spokesman said such inquiries come from entities on both sides of the political spectrum, as well as mainstream news organizations.
Diamond and Silk was able to lobby the third-party fact checker to change the rating down to “Partly False” and, with the help of the managed partner escalation process, all its strikes were removed, according to the posted summary and escalation documents.A Facebook spokesman said that the employee who flagged Diamond and Silk’s willingness to complain about bias was just gathering information to pass up to decision makers, not arguing what to do about the incident.
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