With allegations escalating that Facebook actively suppresses politically conservative news stories, the company has denied it’s taking a political bend.

“We take these reports extremely seriously, and have found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true,” wrote Tom Stocky, a member of Facebook’s Trending Topics team, in a post . “Facebook is a platform for people and perspectives from across the political spectrum.”

Stocky’s comment came after allegations surfaced in Gizmodo, a tech blog, that Facebook employees “routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers” from the social network’s section highlighting the site’s top trending stories.

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