Quis custodiet ipsos custodet?  (Who watches the watchers?)<p>To have some kind of filtering or curation, you necessarily have to put some people into a position of power where they have the ability to censor this noise.  On a forum where it&#x27;s explicitly known that such &quot;moderators&quot; are present, and even better if their biases are known, this is perfectly fine.  If I&#x27;m on a science-oriented discussion forum and it&#x27;s advertised that the moderators of this forum will ban anyone who attempts to spread pseudoscience or anti-science religious junk, that&#x27;ll help attract me because I don&#x27;t want waste my time looking at that crap.<p>There&#x27;s also forums where there&#x27;s very little such curation, and instead community moderation is mostly relied on: users are given moderation points to boost or suppress other posts.  That&#x27;s fine too: you know going in what the deal is, so you just have to see if you mesh with the other members or not.<p>However, if a forum claims to be &quot;open&quot; and &quot;inclusive&quot; but then censors people, that&#x27;s just hypocritical and wrong.  If you&#x27;re going to push a bias, then you have to at least inform users of this.<p>As it relates to Facebook, which is supposed to be for everyone and not just people of a certain political persuasion, they shouldn&#x27;t be censoring anything unless they&#x27;re going to make this known up-front (which they haven&#x27;t).  &quot;Trending topics&quot; should be anything that&#x27;s highly popular.  If some completely wrong and debunked BS is the most popular new story among your site&#x27;s users, then you need to show that at the top, or else you&#x27;re not serving your users.  If you don&#x27;t like that, then you either need to inform them of how you&#x27;re going to censor and slant things, or you need to get rid of users you don&#x27;t like.  Or maybe just get rid of the &quot;trending topics&quot; section, and replace it with something more fine-tuned so that one group of users doesn&#x27;t get annoyed at seeing junk they disagree with that another group of users really likes.<p>The simple fact is that you can&#x27;t please everyone.  If you try, you&#x27;re going to fail.  Sites like Reddit avoid this by having tons of different sub-forums, each with their own rules and moderators.  Some far-right conservative wackos can co-exist with far-left liberals there because they&#x27;re on separate subreddits.