The local crime story that went viral: Chips with Everything podcast
by Presented by Jordan Erica Webber and produced by D from Technology | The Guardian on (#4DMFX)
Jordan Erica Webber looks at a local crime brief that defied Facebook's 2018 algorithm change, one that promised to transform users' news feeds.
In March 2019, journalist Will Oremus was reading through a report on Facebook's latest publishing trends. One aspect of the study caught his eye.
A 119-word, local crime brief was the most shared news story on all of English-language Facebook in the first three months of 2019.
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