Mark Zuckerberg Meets With Conservatives at Facebook HQ

Damage-control efforts continued in the controversy over conservative content and Facebook's Trending Topics.

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted more than one-dozen conservative leaders at the social network’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Wednesday, in an attempt to quell concerns that conservative content was being suppressed from its Trending Topics.

Trending Topics has been a hot-button topic since a Gizmodo report last week cited anonymous former Facebook employees who claimed that the trending box was manipulated to suppress conservative content and that they were instructed to insert topics into Trending because they came from major news organizations, and not because they were naturally trending.

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