Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News
I have no great love of conservative politics, but there&#x27;s a convincing argument to be made that their ideas and views are routinely suppressed by media outside of explicitly partisan media outlets (i.e. Fox News or talk radio).<p>There are a number of studies that back up this claim. A 2008 study[0] found that 88% of journalists donate to the Democratic party. Jonathan Haidt has shown[1] that non-economics social sciences skew more than 14-1 liberal to conservative (and that universities have not always been so skewed).<p>For anyone who believes these statistics are not based on overt discrimination based on political viewpoint, a recent study[2] showed that discrimination by party is stronger than that of race. The study did so by reproducing a landmark study that demonstrated the existence of unconscious racial bias (the implicit association test), but instead using political indicators. They found that partisan political positions triggered implicit associations 50% stronger than that of racial biases. There is also a recent book called &quot;Passing on the Right&quot;[3] which provides some personal narratives of conservative academics.<p>If you&#x27;re relying on academic knowledge to provide you a sense of reality, you&#x27;re viewing reality through a lens that is biased to a 93% degree towards one political pole, and then receiving that knowledge through a media system which is biased to an 88% degree towards that same political pole.<p>Even if you, like me, generally believe that the liberal political position is correct, ideological conformity of this magnitude should frighten you.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;130902" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;130902</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pcl.stanford.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;2015&#x2F;iyengar-ajps-group-polarization.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pcl.stanford.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;2015&#x2F;iyengar-ajps-group-po...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;new-book-details-realities-being-conservative-professor-humanities-and-social" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;new-book-deta...</a>