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How Facebook is wrecking political news
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After the standard survey of Facebook's impact on news & democracy, an interesting analysis of the way Facebook's:
"trending topics has had a deeply pernicious effect on the way news is produced... encourages publications to look for what's trending and pump out something on that subject as quickly as possible...
lots of quickly aggregated pieces that do little to advance anyone's understanding of what's going on, and can amplify any errors that existed in earlier publications' coverage.
the solution for publishers isn't to ... game the system... the key is for them to wean themselves off the need for Facebook to intermediate between publishers and their audience."
- How Facebook is wrecking political news
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The above notes were curated from the full post kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/staff-editorials/10580/facebook-trending-topics-journalism/?utm_source=API%27s+Need+to+Know+newsletter&utm_campaign=c3c76be452-Need_to_Know_October_20_201410_20_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e3bf78af04-c3c76be452-45795445.Related reading
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