Facebook’s 1.44 billion users rely on the site for lots of things: keeping in touch, sharing photos, casual stalking.
But if you get your political news through Facebook, as more than 60 percent of millennials do, please browse with extreme caution:
The site doesn’t show you everything, and may subtly skew your point of view.
A new survey by the Pew Center suggests that a majority of American Internet users now get political news from Facebook.
Unlike other, traditional sources, Facebook hides many stories selectively.
According to a recent Washington Post experiment, as much as 72 percent of the new material your friends and subscribed pages post never actually shows up in your News Feed. -- The Washington Post, "If you use Facebook to get your news, please — for the love of democracy — read this first"
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