&gt; What if it were liberal news?<p>If you read the article, its quite possible that it was <i>also</i> liberal news, depending on individual curators. Given other FB interventions I&#x27;ve seen, I&#x27;d be surprised if, like everything else at FB, the news moderation wasn&#x27;t just stunningly inconsistent with rampant suppression of left, right, and center according to individual and essentially unaccountable whim.<p>FB is tolerably usable for basic circle-of-immediate-friends social functions without excessive interference. As far as public communication, news, and advocacy, well, its there, and there&#x27;s enough people that come to it for that that it can&#x27;t be ignored, but its fairly horrible for it, not so much from a systematic one-sided distortion but more absolute caprice.