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Is Facebook biased?

A report accuses the company of having an anti-conservative bias.

Former US Republican senator Jon Kyl says he has spent the last year compiling a report into how the algorithms on the site work, that鈥檚 machine code that can supposedly predict what you might like to read or see, and he says Facebook has 鈥渟ignificant work to do鈥 in order to satisfy concerns it has an anti-conservative bias. So how much weight is this report being given?
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