18 thoughts on “News You Can’t Make Up, Unless You are Facebook

  1. What stands out to me is you considered the Gabby Petito update to be “real news” on par with the other stories.

    I still don’t understand why that one story did/is dominating headlines.Report

      1. Cute white woman PLUS minor celeb PLUS lots of luck. We have lots of people die every year, lots of them are cute.

        Someone needs to win the lottery (meaning something needs to go viral), however it’s a pity to happen after you’re dead.Report

      1. The man was just convicted of multiple counts of sex trafficking. I would think that would be understandable to anyone. Unless we should only be concerned about sex trafficking if Harvey Weinstein or Jeffery Epstein is involved?Report

    1. Crime stories are real news. Sometimes local, sometimes national. I agree it’s weird that some stories go wide when people are missing and murdered every day and we never hear about it, but it’s still news.Report

    2. She was an “influencer”. A small one, but that’s always a story.

      Her murderer was someone well-known to her.

      You know true crime podcasts? Well, this is a REAL LIFE ONE.

      It dominated headlines because it got clicks. Tomorrow there will be another story that will get clicks and punch way above its weight and you’ll ask “where in the hell did *THIS* come from?”

      And again on Tuesday.Report

  2. Cookie targeting is imperfect and the algorithms ‘see’ logic sometimes where there isn’t any. But also what you see can have as much to with reimbursement terms as anything else. For example, there may be times where there is a click milestone to reach and so targeting is suspended to throw it at every person possible in hopes of breaking the 10 million mark by x date.Report

  3. Strangely, just last week the only 4 women I work with were chatting and somehow black honey came up and turns out all 4 of us own it. I do not wear makeup and never lipstick it is the only gloss I have. Bought it in the 90sReport

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