&gt; When users weren’t reading stories that management viewed as important, several former workers said, curators were told to put them in the trending news feed anyway.<p>Maybe a goal here is to try to ensure that the FB community does not _appear to outsiders_ to be a right-wing, conservative, un-cool community.<p>If the FB user base were seen as a collection of mainstream, or even right-of-center, people, it would be bad for business. A lot of observers and decision-makers in industry might spend their ad dollars somewhere else.