Facebook has publicly promised not to discriminate against its employees based on their ideology or viewpoint as it battles continuing claims of political bias.
The social media giant quietly added language to its recruitment website late last year saying that it does not discriminate on the basis of "political views or activity".
The National Centre for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a conservative think tank based in Washington DC, took credit for the change, saying it had threatened to put public pressure on the company.
Justin Danhof, the NCPPR's general counsel, said he had told Facebook he would bring a shareholder motion similar to those it has already filed at Twitter, demanding board-level probes into political discrimination. He added that he withdrew the plan after Facebook updated its site.
A spokeswoman for Facebook said that it had merely updated its website to reflect a longstanding policy, but declined to say why or when the language had changed.
The change comes after the company was criticised by Conservative MPs for appointing Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian,to its experimental new "supreme court".
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