Linked - Facebook says its Trending topics weren't biased, but it's fixing its selection system anyway

Facebook- and the media- are still missing the point.

Shocker.

Media bias has never been about a prescribed, mandate-driven problem.  No reasonable observer has seen this as "Facebook had policies that forced left-leaning trends."  

It's a classic straw-man fallacy.  Construct a false premise ("Facebook had a policy") and then prove it's falsehood.

The truth is actually worse.  Because if there had been a policy, it would have been easy to spot and easy to fix.  Instead, the truth is, the majority of editors didn't realize there was a bias because IT WAS THEIR OWN BIAS.

It took an editor with a minority opinion to speak out under anonymity to even bring it up.  Because the culture was so ingrained towards the bias that calling it out would have been laughable in the room.

Look, this is that fine line between "bias" and "conspiracy."  And the media- because it's biased- loves to move the conversation to the latter.

The real issue- biases and all aside- is that Facebook purported a section called "Trending" when it was actually curated.  It's a violation of user trust and THAT'S what we should be talking about. 

(The "bias" was proved by the fact that no one there saw their intervening in the "trends" as problematic.  THAT'S bias in action.)