<story><title>Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006?rev=1462799465508</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwit992</author><text>I have no great love of conservative politics, but there&amp;#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).&lt;p&gt;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).&lt;p&gt;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 &amp;quot;Passing on the Right&amp;quot;[3] which provides some personal narratives of conservative academics.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re relying on academic knowledge to provide you a sense of reality, you&amp;#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.&lt;p&gt;Even if you, like me, generally believe that the liberal political position is correct, ideological conformity of this magnitude should frighten you.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;130902&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;130902&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcl.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;research&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;iyengar-ajps-group-polarization.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcl.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;research&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;iyengar-ajps-group-po...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;new-book-details-realities-being-conservative-professor-humanities-and-social&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;new-book-deta...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>golemotron</author><text>&amp;gt; Even if you, like me, generally believe that the liberal political position is correct, ideological conformity of this magnitude should frighten you.&lt;p&gt;What it does is make people whose views fall out of that bubble feel disenfranchised. This is no small part of the Trump phenomenon.&lt;p&gt;I was watching a documentary about South American politics yesterday  and there was a globalist establishment candidate running against one that was a protectionist populist. It was strange to see that the globalist was on the right and the protectionist was on the left and that is exactly the opposite of what we are seeing in the US election this year. After decades of people on the left lamenting that working class Republicans don&amp;#x27;t vote in their own interest the left is in a panic now because they are.&lt;p&gt;No one saw this coming and the media lock down is the reason why. When it&amp;#x27;s easy to smear anyone who does not take a globalist position as a racist that part of political discourse goes underground until it pops up in the voting booth.</text></comment>
<story><title>Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006?rev=1462799465508</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwit992</author><text>I have no great love of conservative politics, but there&amp;#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).&lt;p&gt;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).&lt;p&gt;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 &amp;quot;Passing on the Right&amp;quot;[3] which provides some personal narratives of conservative academics.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re relying on academic knowledge to provide you a sense of reality, you&amp;#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.&lt;p&gt;Even if you, like me, generally believe that the liberal political position is correct, ideological conformity of this magnitude should frighten you.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;130902&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;130902&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcl.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;research&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;iyengar-ajps-group-polarization.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pcl.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;research&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;iyengar-ajps-group-po...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;new-book-details-realities-being-conservative-professor-humanities-and-social&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;new-book-deta...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pj_mukh</author><text>This &amp;quot;seems&amp;quot; like an American phenomenon. 
As a liberal, I can have a fully formed debate with a British Conservative, A Canadian conservative, a European conservative (sans latent Nazism), however the dominant American conservative seems to be operating on a completely different plain and set of assumptions. I find it extremely difficult to relate to and debate the American conservative. In general, if an american &amp;lt;insert institution here&amp;gt; (college, newspaper etc.) seems uber-liberal in America, it is just run-of-the-mill centrist in most other countries. Not because of any stated or unstated institutional biases, but simply because its been labelled so by a relentless, uncompromising, hyper-focussed and hugely disciplined conservative media looking for easy answers.&lt;p&gt;P.S: Also the predilection to openly say &amp;quot;Compromise is impossible&amp;quot;, esp behind the scenes, also seems to be a unique attribute of the American Conservative.</text></comment>