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Screw The US Election, The Mannequin Challenge Is The Only Thing That Matters
With the US election finally winding down, the news cycle has been pretty grim. Hillary Clinton is busy fending off another email scandal and Donald Trump is doing what he’s always been doing: Being an arsehole. Thankfully, the youth of America are here to save us.
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Facebook’s Trending News Is A Total Mess
Facebook unceremoniously fired at least 15 editors from its trending news team on Friday, as Quartz first reported. The decision to eliminate humans came three months after Gizmodo’s reporting revealed the inner workings of the trending news group, including allegations from former curators that their colleagues suppressed conservative news.
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Facebook Announces Sweeping Changes To Trending Section
Facebook is enacting a number of changes to its trending news module following a two-week internal investigation. The company’s announcement comes in response to a letter of inquiry from the US Senate Commerce Committee, issued one day after Gizmodo reported on the allegations of one former “news curator” for the trending section, who alleged coworkers…
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Want To Know What Facebook Really Thinks Of Journalists? Here’s What Happened When It Hired Some
Depending on whom you ask, Facebook is either the saviour or destroyer of journalism in our time. An estimated 600 million people see a news story on Facebook every week, and the social network’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has been transparent about his goal to monopolize digital news distribution. “When news is as fast as everything…