Zuckerberg Speaks Out Following News Of His Staff Manipulating ‘Trending Topics’ Stream
Facebook has been under the pump this week, former staff accusing the site of lying to its users. Now the big man speaks out.
So Hey, Twitter Hasn’t Re-Invented Journalism After All
Sort of. HP recently released a study looking under the hood of Twitter’s ‘Trending Topics’ function – revealing (gasp) that most of the time, popular topics get broadcast by major media twitter accounts, then amplified by their followers, rather than some wanky cloud-based news system.