MENLO PARK, Calif., May 24 (UPI) -- Facebook said it plans to make changes to its trending topics feature after it was accused of anti-conservative media bias, though the social media giant said it found no evidence to support the allegations.
"Our investigation has revealed no evidence of systematic political bias in the selection or prominence of stories included in the trending topics feature. Our data analysis indicated that conservative and liberal topics are approved as trending topics at virtually identical rates," Facebook said in a letter to Sen. John Thune, R- S.D., sent Monday. "We were also unable to substantiate any of the specific allegations of politically motivated suppression of particular subjects or sources. In fact, we confirmed that most of the subjects mentioned in media reports were included as trending topics on multiple occasions."