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- On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with top conservative media
figures, including Glenn Beck, Dana Perino and Tucker Carlson, after his company
was accused of suppressing news stories on political grounds. Former Facebook
workers told the website Gizmodo they routinely suppressed news stories of
interest to conservative readers by keeping them out of the "trending" stories
section on the sidebar. "The concerns are legitimate," says media analyst Robert
McChesney, "but the real question is: Should we have a private monopoly that has
so much political influence and political power?" McChesney also discusses
Facebook’s surveillance and access to user’s data, and whether such companies
could be nationalized.
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