Facebook Incorporated chief executive Mark Zuckerberg invited conservative leaders on May 18 for a private meeting. The social media company is doing this for a damage control campaign after a bad rumor surfaced on a tech website.
The Facebook CEO will be meeting 15 prominent leaders from the conservatives like TV and radio host Glenn Beck, Donald Trump adviser Barry Bennett, CNN commentator S.E. Cupp, and many more. The meeting will be held at Facebook's Menlo Park, California, headquarters, according to CBS News. The CEO will be joined by Facebook's head of global public policy, Joel Kaplan.
The reason for the meeting was in response to an issue about a report that said that contractors for the social media company were suppressing the articles about the conservatives from their trending section. The rumor appeared on a tech website called Gizmodo, and posted about an anonymous former member of their staff has leaked that rumor. The social media company responded in a statement that the allegations were false because there was no evidence to prove it.
According to Breitbart News, they told the representatives of the social media company that they do not want to join the meeting. The pro-Trump news outlet instead said in a statement that they want transparency and the truth of the matter. They have declared that they have zero interest in the meeting that the social media is trying to set up.
The editors from the news outlet challenged the social media CEO to do a live interview with their technology editor. They want to talk about the topic of free speech, and the company's suppression of their methods of doing media.
The conservatives were convinced that the rumor was true and that the social media website is biased. Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus accused the website of censorship and an inquiry was opened by a Senate Republican recently.
Popular radio host Beck announced the details of the meeting for the CEO. He is trying to find a way to join the meeting by rearranging his schedule. He is interested in what would happen as Zuckerberg explains what the truth of the matter really is.
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