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A US Senate committee on Tuesday demanded that Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg respond to a Monday report in Gizmodo that the social networking site's workers "routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network's influential 'trending' news section."
South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, labeled the allegations in the anonymously sourced Gizmodo piece "serious."
"Facebook must answer these serious allegations and hold those responsible to account if there has been political bias in the dissemination of trending news,” Thune said in a statement. "Any attempt by a neutral and inclusive social media platform to censor or manipulate political discussion is an abuse of trust and inconsistent with the values of an open Internet."
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