{"id":3630,"date":"2016-05-13T02:41:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/13\/finally-proof-that-facebooks-news-is-just-old-stories-from-mainstream-media\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T02:41:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:41:15","slug":"finally-proof-that-facebooks-news-is-just-old-stories-from-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/13\/finally-proof-that-facebooks-news-is-just-old-stories-from-mainstream-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, proof that Facebook&#039;s &#039;news&#039; is just old stories from mainstream media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f87490%2ffacebook_elections\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/Q7VGupyJjFLtzAcZbumDqRsoKWw=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F87490%2FFacebook_elections.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Finally%2C+proof+that+Facebook%27s+%27news%27+is+just+old+stories+from+mainstream+media&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F12%2Ffacebook-trending-topics-leak-guidelines%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F12%2Ffacebook-trending-topics-leak-guidelines%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Facebook has been <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/09\/facebook-trending-topics-conservative-media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">under fire recently<\/a> over allegations that some of the contractors working on its &#8220;Trending Topics&#8221; had prevented conservative media outlets from showing up in the section.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a document purporting to be Facebook&#8217;s internal guidelines for that section leaked, showing that while there is no top-down encouragement to ignore conservative media, its practices are heavily dependent on employees to pick the news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The most surprising revelation from the 21-page document, which were\u00a0<i style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/may\/12\/facebook-trending-news-leaked-documents-editor-guidelines\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">acquired by The Guardian<\/a>,<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0may be the lack of science behind Facebook&#8217;s system for choosing important national stories.\u00a0<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/12\/facebook-trending-topics-leak-guidelines\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/digital-media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Digital Media<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Media<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/4qFzbpdjc0E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has been under fire recently over allegations that some of the contractors working on its &#8220;Trending Topics&#8221; had prevented conservative media outlets from showing up in the section. 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