Something very peculiar has been taking place on Facebook’s trending section since presidential candidate Hillary Clinton collapsed at a 9/11 memorial. Immediately after news of the medical emergency broke, the term Hillary Clinton was a top trending story on the social media site, with the trending section revealing that over 1 Million people were “talking about this.”

But by the next morning something extremely odd had happened. Although national broadcast television and radio media were plastered with non-stop coverage of the story, and it was being widely disseminated across Facebook and other social media outlets, the term Hillary Clinton was no longer trending on Facebook as a top story.

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A cursory search of the term “Hillary Clinton collapse” on September 12 revealed that only 28,992 people were now “talking about this.” Using the search term “Hillary Clinton faints” registered a meager 1,000 people.

Now some could say that perhaps these numbers are accurate; as how can anyone dispute what the almighty Facebook says is truth?
To give some perspective we searched Facebook for the name of one of the writers here at The Free Thought Project; Claire S Bernish — and the results were extremely telling.



The odds of these having one of our writers having virtually twice the number of people talking about her on Facebook, as compared to Hillary Clinton while in the midst of major national news story, strongly indicates some type of outside intervention by Facebook. This startling form of soft-censorship, employed by the social media giant to manipulate people’s perceptions about political events, raises serious ethical questions.
In fact, at certain points, there has been nothing available trending in politics at all. It seems as if Facebook is not registering political posts in their trending section – as if politics don’t exist — while at other times only showing one or two trending political items.

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