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Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here's What Happened When It Hired Some.

Takeaways from Michael Nunez’s amazing article about Facebook’s inhouse journalists:

1) Facebook literally keeps their in-house journalists in a conference room in the basement.
2) That “Trending” box on your Facebook feed has its content determined by real live humans, not algorithms.
3) Most of the journalists working on the “Trending” box are in their late twenties or early thirties, and graduated from the Ivy League or schools like NYU.
4) These journalists all work at Facebook as independent contractors, and not Facebook employees.
5) The Trends section avoids linking to World Star Hip Hop, The Blaze, and Breitbart.

(Source: Gizmodo)

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  15. patrickdehahn said: 6) And links super slow to breaking news such as the Boston Marathon, the Brussels attacks, etc etc.
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