In the meeting, conservatives expressed concern over several of Facebook’s methods beyond trending topics, like policies over who can be blocked on the network, according to Dana Perino, a Fox News contributor and former White House press secretary under George W. Bush.

“I found them to be pretty genuine and sincere,” she said on Fox News after the meeting. “They know that they have a lot of work to do.”

Meeting attendees also raised the issue of the ideological diversity of Facebook’s workforce in Silicon Valley, which leans liberal. The company seemed to acknowledge that was a problem, said Tucker Carlson, a conservative commentator, on Fox News Wednesday.

Still, conservatives in the meeting disagreed over how to solve the issue of bias, he said.

“A group of conservatives is as united as the Republican party now -- which is not very,” Carlson said on Fox. And their ideology, which values the right for private enterprises to make independent decisions, limits what they can ask Facebook for. “Conservatives basically don’t believe in the kind of action that would force a group to comply.”

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