Business Insider - Thomson Reuters Mark Zuckerberg says that he believes in freedom of expression. To prove it, he should ask Peter Thiel, who funded a legal campaign designed to drive Gawker Media out of business, to step down from Facebook's board of directors. What Zuckerberg said Earlier this month, an anonymous former Facebook employee accused Facebook of showing liberal bias in the story selection for its Trending news box. The employee, a former journalist, told Gizmodo that stories about Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative interests were kept out of that box, even though they were organically trending with readers. Conservatives began to rumble about discrimination. It seemed a little disproportionate, as that Trending news box is in a tiny corner of the site ? this wasn't about the News Feed that most Facebook users spend most of their time with. But Facebook reacted quickly and aggressively. It showed the world the guidelines that its human news curators were supposed to foll
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