As TruthRevolt reported previously, former employees have come forward and alleged that Facebook actively suppressed conservative stories from appearing in users' trending news feeds. Now it has come to light that the social media giant encouraged employees to manually insert stories about Black Lives Matter to increase the activist group's popularity.

“Facebook got a lot of pressure about not having a trending topic for Black Lives Matter,” the former curator told Gizmodo. “They realized it was a problem, and they boosted it in the ordering. They gave it preference over other topics.”

Tech website Gizmodo reported that several former employees of the social media giant explained how popular stories were not organically determined by traffic but rather was an "an inorganic list curated by mostly liberal-leaning journalists trained at Ivy League schools."

The Daily Caller writes, "The Black Lives Matter movement began on Facebook, and its strong presence on social media was hailed in the press. But the curator’s comments raise questions about how much steam the movement would have picked up without the help of Facebook employees apparently working in the interest of their brand."

“When we injected [Black Lives Matter], everyone started saying, ‘Yeah, now I’m seeing it as number one,'” the former employee told Gizmodo, suggesting Facebook gave the movement the momentum on social media that drove coverage of the story in the press.

Back in February, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg scolded his employees in a memo for writing "all lives matter" on the Facebook signature wall. 

“This has been deeply hurtful and tiresome for the black community and really the entire Facebook community, and we are now investigating the current incidents,” he wrote in an internal memo to staff.