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Mapping Global Bias In Facebook's Media List

 May 18, 2016

Kalev's latest Forbes story "Is Facebook's Trending Topics Biased Against Africa And The Middle East?" includes a map of the geographic footprint of the 1,000 media outlets powering Facebook's Trending Topics module, visualizing the tremendous Western bias in the list and the tremendous paucity of outlets in Africa and the Middle East.

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Read the Article in Forbes.

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