With over 1.5 billion users worldwide, Facebook has become a place that people flock to for real-time news and information. Last year, a study by the Pew Research Center found that 63 percent of Facebook’s users considered the service a news source. Yet, after a long set of interviews, journalists have recently exposed that the social network had intentionally suppressed articles from conservative news sources from being featured on the site’s “trending” news list – a resource which claims to indicate the most popular news articles of the day.
While Facebook scrambled to respond to these accusations of political bias, asserting that it follows rigorous guidelines to ensure consistency and neutrality; a serious backlash — from both conservative and liberal critics — erupted.
In this article we will inquire what the Halacha would be in such a scenario: can one manipulate or hide information for a purpose he deems to be beneficial for the recipient? How about for the sake of peace or other Mitzvos?
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