New York, May 13 (RHC)-- The social media site Facebook has been accused of suppressing news stories on political grounds.  Former Facebook workers told the website Gizmodo they routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers by keeping them out of the "trending" stories section on the sidebar.

Among the topics they purportedly suppressed were those about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney and Rand Paul.  They were reportedly told to exclude news about Facebook itself.

Gizmodo technology editor Michael Nuñez wrote: "In other words, Facebook’s news section operates like a traditional newsroom reflecting the biases of its workers and the institutional imperatives of the corporation."