Facebook “curates” its “trending” items, guiding the news absorbed by “roughly 1.6 billion users worldwide, of whom 167 million are in the United States.”
In effect, these curators exercise gate keeping powers which amount to political news-making powers that are transmitted to Facebook’s audience. Even the New York Times published an article this week with a headline saying that the social press “finds new roll as news and entertainment curator.”
Source: Where There’s Smoke of BiasThere Could Be Fire For Zuckerberg’s Facebook – The New York Sun
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