Weekly Example of Media Bias - March 21, 2018
Many Americans get news from Facebook. A May 2016 Pew survey found that a majority of US adults—62%—get news on social media, with 66% percent of Facebook users surveyed saying that they get news from the platform.
Facebook, with close to 1.8 billion monthly active users, wants to be seen as neutral. "We are a tech company, not a media company," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in 2016.
What is your reaction to this Obama campaign director's statement that Facebook was "on our side" during President Obama's reelection bid?