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On June 10, the most popular stories across Facebook were all NASCAR banning Confederate flags and Blue Lives Matter (with a sprinkling of dead kids). Over in Facebook News, though, things were different.
Owen, Laura Hazard. "The new Facebook News is filled with stories that are way too mainstream to do well on the rest of Facebook." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 10 Jun. 2020. Web. 12 May. 2023.
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Owen, L. (2020, Jun. 10). The new Facebook News is filled with stories that are way too mainstream to do well on the rest of Facebook. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 12, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/the-new-facebook-news-is-filled-with-stories-that-are-way-too-mainstream-to-do-well-on-the-rest-of-facebook/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "The new Facebook News is filled with stories that are way too mainstream to do well on the rest of Facebook." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 10, 2020. Accessed May 12, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/the-new-facebook-news-is-filled-with-stories-that-are-way-too-mainstream-to-do-well-on-the-rest-of-facebook/.
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