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News Media Losing Patience With Facebook

Among other reasons, news media types are increasingly frustrated with the mysterious process by which Facebook places posts in users’ News Feeds. “We are not suggesting that it ‘edits’ NewsFeed in the same way that a newspaper editor once edited the front page,” Jay Rosen writes in his PressThink blog. “It’s a very different way. That’s why we’re asking about it!” Rosen continues: “We are not suggesting that algorithms work in the same way that elites deciding what’s news once operated. It’s a different way. That’s why we’re asking about it!”

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