 The Next Fox News? Why Facebook Is Sucking Up To ConservativesFacebook is in the middle of a charm offensive targeted at conservatives, and is hosting a meeting between company founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg and conservative media figures like Glenn Beck and Fox News host Dana Perino.The meeting is happening just six months before a presidential election and in the first election where social media sites like Facebook (and Twitter) have become more influential than ever.After accusations of anti-conservative bias began to burn Facebook last week, the social media giant quietly reached out to Republican Party leaders to douse the brush fire.It contacted the Republican National Committee, whose chairman, Reince Priebus, had publicly demanded that Facebook  answer for conservative censorship    and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which had blasted out a fundraising email lumping the ostensibly neutral tech company in with the  liberal media,  according to a GOP source. The National Republican Congressional Committee, the GOP s main House campaign arm, also heard from Facebook, the source added.The firestorm began after a story on the tech site Gizmodo used an anonymous conservative who claimed to be a former Facebook employee as the source for a story alleging that Facebook was excluding conservative news sources from its trending topics area, a valuable source of traffic for news outlets.Soon after the piece came out, Facebook denied the allegations and revealed its internal rules for what sites are featured in trending topics, but the damage has been done.As they have done for years complaining about the  liberal media,  conservatives are now targeting the  liberal bias  at Facebook. Certainly, Zuckerberg appears to personally lean left, and most employees of a modern tech company are not going to be Rush Limbaugh style right-wingers, but the allegation doesn t have much of a leg to stand on. Conservative sites like Fox News have been shown to trend on Facebook.What this ends up being is an influential media outlet who now feels they have to curry favor with the right wing, bending over backwards so that very loud conservatives don t attack them in the same manner they attack the New York Times and MSNBC.Then, as often happens in conservative media, when false stories and lies about the left surface, Facebook will be obligated to trend them and send traffic and aid in the spread of false information   as long as they aren t attacked for  liberal bias. It s an excellent strategy for the right to get what it wants in yet another form of media.Featured image via FlickrNews
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Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT:  The Next Fox News? Why Facebook Is Sucking Up To ConservativesFacebook is in the middle of a charm offensive targeted at conservatives, and is hosting a meeting between company founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg and conservative media figures like Glenn Beck and Fox News host Dana Perino.The meeting is happening just six months before a presidential election and in the first election where social media sites like Facebook (and Twitter) have become more influential than ever.After accusations of anti-conservative bias began to burn Facebook last week, the social media giant quietly reached out to Republican Party leaders to douse the brush fire.It contacted the Republican National Committee, whose chairman, Reince Priebus, had publicly demanded that Facebook  answer for conservative censorship    and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which had blasted out a fundraising email lumping the ostensibly neutral tech company in with the  liberal media,  according to a GOP source. The National Republican Congressional Committee, the GOP s main House campaign arm, also heard from Facebook, the source added.The firestorm began after a story on the tech site Gizmodo used an anonymous conservative who claimed to be a former Facebook employee as the source for a story alleging that Facebook was excluding conservative news sources from its trending topics area, a valuable source of traffic for news outlets.Soon after the piece came out, Facebook denied the allegations and revealed its internal rules for what sites are featured in trending topics, but the damage has been done.As they have done for years complaining about the  liberal media,  conservatives are now targeting the  liberal bias  at Facebook. Certainly, Zuckerberg appears to personally lean left, and most employees of a modern tech company are not going to be Rush Limbaugh style right-wingers, but the allegation doesn t have much of a leg to stand on. Conservative sites like Fox News have been shown to trend on Facebook.What this ends up being is an influential media outlet who now feels they have to curry favor with the right wing, bending over backwards so that very loud conservatives don t attack them in the same manner they attack the New York Times and MSNBC.Then, as often happens in conservative media, when false stories and lies about the left surface, Facebook will be obligated to trend them and send traffic and aid in the spread of false information   as long as they aren t attacked for  liberal bias. It s an excellent strategy for the right to get what it wants in yet another form of media.Featured image via FlickrNews
Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: the next fox news why facebook is sucking up to conservativesfacebook middle charm offensive targeted conservatives hosting meeting company mark zuckerberg conservative media figures like glenn beck fox news host dana meeting happening six months presidential election first election social media sites like facebook twitter become influential accusations bias began burn facebook last week social media giant quietly reached republican party leaders house brush contacted republican national committee whose chairman rence priests publicly demanded facebook answer conservative censorship national republican senatorial committee blasted fundraising email jumping ostensibly neutral tech company liberal media according gop source the national republican congressional committee gop main house campaign arm also heard facebook source firestorm began story tech site gizmodo used anonymous conservative claimed former facebook employee source story alleging facebook excluding conservative news sources trending topics area valuable source traffic news piece came facebook denied allegations revealed internal rules sites featured trending topics damage done years complaining liberal media conservatives targeting liberal bias facebook certainly zuckerberg appears personally lean left employees modern tech company going rush limbaugh style allegation much leg stand conservative sites like fox news shown trend ends influential media outlet feels curry favor right wing bending backwards loud conservatives attack manner attack new york times often happens conservative media false stories lies left surface facebook obligated trend send traffic aid spread false information long attacked liberal bias it excellent strategy right get wants yet another form image via flickrnews