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What Facebook's Media List Tells Us About Monitoring News Versus Monitoring Society

 May 18, 2016

Kalev's latest story for Forbes explores how the media list that powers Facebook's Trending Topics module appears to have been constructed as the top 1,000 media properties ranked by total online traffic, necessarily creating an enormous bias towards Western news outlets and the perils of monitoring news versus monitoring society.

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