The Wall Street Journal exposes Facebook suppression of The Washington Times and other conservative news outlets: The Wall Street Journal obtained Facebook internal documents and recently uncovered how Facebook censored conservative news sites including The Washington Times. The Journal called attention to two censorship tools used to suppress content in a recent report. One tool, called “'Sparing Sharing,'" allegedly reduced the reach of frequent posters who "disproportionately shared false and incendiary information," The Wall Street Journal reported. A second tool, "called 'Informed Engagement,' reduced the reach of posts that people were more likely to share if they hadn’t read them." When combined, the two censorship tools greatly impacted the reach of conservative news content shared on Facebook. The Journal went on to explain that “The [internal Facebook] study, dubbed a ‘political ideology analysis,’ suggested the company had been suppressing the traffic of major far-right publishers.” Facebook’s own “political ideology analysis” indicated that multiple conservative outlets would do far better if strict moderation tools were removed, “with Breitbart’s traffic increasing an estimated 20%, Washington Times’ 18%, Western Journal’s 16% and Epoch Times’ by 11%, according to the documents.”