Republican-led report finds Facebook has 'significant work' to earn conservatives' trust.
Tuesday analyzing claims of anti-conservative bias on the platform. The report, by Senator Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and a team at law firm Covington & Burling, found the leading social media platform has a ways to go to earn back conservative users' trust.
As a result of the review, Facebook said it would commit to taking steps to be more transparent about how it ranks News Feed content and enforces community standards. The company has adjusted its "sensational" advertising policy to pull back restrictions on pro-life ads showing medical tubes connected to human bodies, according to the interim report.
Kyl and the team interviewed more than 130 conservative groups, individuals and lawmakers who "use, study, or have the potential to regulate Facebook," according to the report. The review revealed several categories in which conservatives have expressed concerns about bias, including Facebook's advertising policies and enforcement and its content distribution and algorithms.
Conservatives interviewed told the team they feared algorithms that prioritize user content do so "in ways that suppress their viewpoints." Several pointed to Facebook's algorithm change in 2018 that favored content from users' friends and families, arguing it also disproportionately limited the reach of conservative news content.
"Facebook has recognized the importance of our assessment and has taken some steps to address the concerns we uncovered. But there is still significant work to be done to satisfy the concerns we heard from conservatives," the report said.
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