How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism – NYTimes.com

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How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism

Facebook uses mathematical formulas to predict what its users might want to read on the site, from which, a study says, about 30 percent of adults in America get their news.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/business/media/how-facebook-is-changing-the-way-its-users-consume-journalism.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy