A day with Facebook's trending topics: celebrity birthdays and Pokémon Go
by Megan Carpentier from Technology | The Guardian on (#1SY94)
From a hurricane to Brock Turner's release, a lot happened last week. But Facebook calculated that a celebrity losing some weight was more important
Last week, I decided to spend an entire day getting my news solely from Facebook's trending topics. Surely the wisdom, culture and intellectual curiosity of the people of the world - the great global public - will be reflected in this collection of their favorite diverse and engaging news stories?
Here's what greeted me at 8.15 that morning: the world, as defined by Facebook's trending news stories:
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