It’s easy to dismiss the debate about Facebook’s ‘Trending’ news section and its relevance, but the fact of the matter is that more and more people are using social media – and Facebook specifically – as a news source. And another fact – Facebook has the capacity to shift opinion, even influence public behavior.
It’s easy to dismiss this as not being relevant to you, that you don’t pay much attention to that Trending section anyway, but neither of the above claims are speculation, they’ve both been proven by independent research.
