1. What types of bias does the Gizmodo article expose about Facebook's "trending news" section?

2. Jillian Kay Melchior wrote at the New York Post on May 11:

Such allegations are especially disturbing given Facebook’s outsized role in news distribution. With 1.65 billion active monthly users as of May 1, its audience is enormous. A recent Pew study, looking at news consumption on smartphones, discovered that Facebook sends more readers to news sites than any other social-media platform.

Facebook also has exceptional potential to influence the politics of millennials, a group that just surpassed baby boomers as America’s biggest generation. Sixty-one percent of adults under 34 consume political news from Facebook, according to Pew.

Narrowing their exposure to diverse opinions and perspectives changes the way they view the world.

Do you agree with this assertion? Explain your answer.

3. Would this information about Facebook affect your use of its "trending news" section? Explain your answer.

(Read another analysis on the Facebook story by Farhad Manjoo at The New York Times: "Facebook’s Bias Is Built-In, and Bears Watching")