Conservatives Split Over ‘Bias’ Meeting With Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

— -- In the wake of reports last week alleging that curators of Facebook's "trending" news bar were actively suppressing certain stories on ideological grounds, conservatives were split regarding the virtues of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's so-called "olive branch" meeting with prominent members of their community.

It's a division that may be reflective of a wider rift among conservatives in the media.

News of Zuckerberg's effort to reach out to conservatives broke when Glenn Beck published a roughly 550-word post on Facebook, saying that he had been contacted by Zuckerberg this week to meet in Menlo Park, California, home to the social media site's sprawling headquarters. Beck confirmed that he would attend the meeting.

Mitt Romney's former digital director Zac Moffatt, Republican pollster and Washington Examiner columnist Kristen Soltis Anderson, Fox News' Dana Perino and CNN's S.E. Cupp will attend the meeting with Beck. Barry Bennett, a senior adviser to Donald Trump's campaign, will also be there on Wednesday, Facebook confirmed to ABC News.

Not everyone reacted positively to news of the meeting. The influential news aggregation website Drudge Report ran the headline "Glenn Beck to Grovel at Zuckerberg's Feet." Breitbart.com, a website founded by former Drudge Report editor Andrew Breitbart, used the headline "Anti-Trump Conservatives to Meet with Facebook" on one of its stories, implying a more specific subtext of bias within Facebook's attempt to reach out to conservatives by disproportionately singling out critics of the presumptive GOP nominee.

Beck, Moffatt and Perino have criticized Trump at different times throughout the primary process. Beck, an ardent supporter of former presidential candidate Ted Cruz, frequently asked his radio audience to "pray" for the Texas senator.

Milo Yiannopoulos, a Breitbart.com commentator and rising star of the so-called "alt-right" movement, challenged Zuckerberg to a debate in a YouTube video posted on May 14 regarding allegations of what he referred to as "censoring conservatives."