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I suspect this may be an unpopular opinion, but given that in my experience, the Trending tab tends towards garbage and clickbait instead of real news, one woul
by rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
I suspect this may be an unpopular opinion, but given that in my experience, the Trending tab tends towards garbage and clickbait instead of real news, one would imagine Fox News hysteria and Facebook's Trending news would be a match made in heaven, and if it weren't for personal curation, we would see even more garbage as a result.
- digi_owl 10y agoThats because those things avoid PR shitstorms. You see the same thing with what Reddit has on their default front page.
- maxerickson 10y agoYeah, if they use clicks to train the thing surfacing the news items it's pretty likely that the thing will start surfacing click bate.
- unlinker 10y agoIt's funny how BuzzFeed or Vox shit is deemed reasonable by the left while Fox News shit is treated as, well, shit. No. Both are shit.
- untog 10y agoI'm not sure when I've ever seen someone deem Buzzfeed's shit "reasonable".
- rm_-rf_slash 10y agoTo be fair buzzfeed does have some decent long-form journalism. Just like any media company, they want as many eyes as they can get, whether they're reading intently or glazed over during a commercial break.