If you have noticed all the 'stuff' on Facebook when you go to see your friends and family, DON'T MISS THIS ARTICLE! "Facebook’s primacy is a foregone conclusion, and the question of Facebook’s relationship to political discourse is absurd — they’re one and the same.“Facebook is where it’s all happening.” The news exists primarily within users’ feeds, its authorship obscured, its provenance unclear, its veracity questionable. It exists so far outside the normal channels of news production and distribution that its claims will go unchallenged. The news feed is designed, to “show people the stories most relevant to them” and ranks stories “so that what’s most important to each person shows up highest in their news feeds.” It is a framework built around personal connections and sharing, where value is both expressed and conferred through the concept of engagement."
At www.nytimes.com
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