Mark Zuckerberg meets Trump adviser and conservatives after Facebook bias claims

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is due to meet prominent US conservative

leaders to perform damage control after the social networking giant was accused of showing a liberal political bias. 

Those invited include Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump's adviser Barry Bennett, Fox News political pundit and former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, and conservative commentator Glenn Beck who will assemble today at Facebook headquarters in California. 

" I want to have a direct conversation about what Facebook stands for and how we can be sure our platform stays as open as possible," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post last week.

The move comes in the aftermath of allegations that Facebook workers were asked to suppress US conservative political news in its "Trending Topics" column, although Facebook has denied this sort of censorship. 

Tom Stocky, who is responsible for the section, said it had “no evidence” to back up a report from technology website Gizmodo quoting an unnamed source that said the company disregarded conservative news outlets.

Taken From : Telegraph