With Facebook's newest feature, journalists have no one to blame for clickbait but readers
The past year has brought a great deal of handwringing over Facebook’s News Feed algorithms. While Twitter was abuzz over the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, all anyone saw on Facebook was the Ice Bucket Challenge. Meanwhile, news publishers griped when the stories that received the most attention on Facebook were quizzes and puppy videos, even as Facebook’s own Product Director, without a hint of irony, blamed the press for ruining news.
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