Glenn Beck says he's going to meet with Mark Zuckerberg about conservative news coverage

Conservative pundit Glenn Beck is set to meet with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday as part of a summit addressing the social network's approach to covering conservative news, Beck said in a Facebook post Sunday. In a May report, Gizmodo alleged that Facebook intentionally suppresses conservative-leaning news stories.

"Mark wanted to meet with 8 or 10 of us to explain what happened and assure us that it won't happen again," Beck wrote.

Zuckerberg, while maintaining that the Gizmodo report wasn't accurate, vowed Thursday to listen to feedback from conservative leaders.

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"Facebook truly is the only communal experience we now have in some ways," Beck wrote in criticizing the suppression of news. "We need to see what 'the other side' is talking about."