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After Facebook meets with conservative leaders, what's next?

A man checks facebook on his smartphone while waiting for a train in a metro station in Washington, DC, on May 9, 2012.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg met with conservative leaders this week in a response to allegations that the tech giant has a liberal bias.
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After Facebook meets with conservative leaders, what's next?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with conservative leaders at the tech giant's headquarters Wednesday, pledging to "build trust" after allegations of political bias.

Zuckerberg met personally with about a dozen conservative leaders – from Congress and the media – at the company's headquarters. At issue: how the company selects news stories that show up on its Trending Topics section. Those stories could be seen than more than a billion and a half users worldwide.

The controversy came up after anonymous former workers at the social media giant told the website Gizmodo that there was a liberal bias at the company.

For more, we're joined by

business and tech correspondent with the New Yorker.