Mike McConnell to Newsmax TV: Facebook Must Be 'Less Loaded'
(Newsmax TV's "Rob Schmitt Tonight")
By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 05 May 2021 10:44 PM
A member of the Facebook oversight board that upheld the ban against former President Donald Trump on Wednesday – while also ordering a new review – is ready to hold "Facebook's feet to the fire" and make the social media giant a "little bit less loaded" in political ideology.
"There are Democrats who think that Facebook leans and supports conservatives, and was responsible in large part for Donald Trump's election," Stanford law professor Michael McConnell, a member of the Facebook oversight board, told Wednesday's "Rob Schmitt Tonight" on Newsmax TV. "Everybody has their own point of view on this, and the problem is that Facebook, they're so standard less. They operate in such a way with so little transparency that there is no control on them.
...
READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/mike-mcconnell-facebook-censorship-bias-against-conservatives/2021/05/05/id/1020298/
____________
"The problem is when you don't do not have clarity, consistency, and transparency, there's no way to know," McConnell said. "And certainly many people in the United States and around the world strongly suspect that Facebook is behaving in a partisan manner."____________