Facebook’s Anti-Conservative Bias Audit Is Here

The preliminary results of Facebook’s long-awaited “bias” audit are out. The key takeaway? Everyone is still unhappy. The report is little more than a formalized catalog of six categories of grievances aired in Republican-led congressional hearings over the past two years. It doesn’t include any real quantitative assessment of bias. There are no statistics assessing the millions of moderation decisions that Facebook and Instagram make each day. Instead, there are merely some capitulatory minor product tweaks to address edge cases, such as the permitting of images of premature babies to...