In An Effort to Combat Claims of Bias, Facebook & Twitter Refuse to Block Leaked Audio of Sen. Sasse.

Silicon Valley, C.A. — In an unexpected break from their policies, social media giants Facebook and Twitter, both made the decision to allow posts with leaked audio of Senator Ben Sasse, in an effort to push back against the claims, from critics, of bias and partiality.

"In the wake of the recent decisions to suppress or remove the New York Post story, which exposed detrimental and possibly criminal behavior by Hunter Biden and his father, we wanted to ensure users of our platforms that we do not have a political bias", said a representative we spoke to from Facebook. "What better way do to this other than allowing Senator Sasse's comments to be hosted on our platform."

When pressed about how allowing this content will help serve their efforts to show they are not partial in how they choose to suppress information, the Facebook representative we spoke with said, "Well, what we did was allow this specific content through. Yes, in this case it was information that could potentially negatively impact President Trump's reelection bid. However, if you're willing to look at this from a different perspective here...we are showing our users a willingness on our part to listen to them and allow certain content—which would normally be considered a violation of our policies—to remain on our platforms. We did this in order for the American public to be informed and aware of content they might find helpful in deciding who to vote for." 

We asked how Facebook plans to deal with calls from Congress and the American public to investigate social media platforms and policies that seem to have a certain political bent. 

"Look, policies don't care about politics and algorithms are agnostic to civics. Our decisions are made with the best interest of all Americans in mind. We do our best to ensure we are fair and faithful to people of all walks in life. Our user base is very diverse and we are in a very lucrative business. We wouldn't be serving our stockholders well, if we made decisions that could impact our bottom line. Do our organizations lean a bit more progressive? Sure. But we know many of our users are passionate people from the political right. We will continue to do our part to stay out of the way, and allow our policies and algorithms to do the work they've been programmed to do; namely, to help shift public opinion, to leverage people's anger and fear for monetary gain, and to ensure that what we saw in the 2016 election will never happen again."