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How Facebook is powering a new kind of "media outlet"

Somehow I must have missed this fascinating story by the New York Times Magazine on how Facebook — which has become the primary source of news for millions of Americans — empowers “entrepreneurs” to make a quick buck by letting a couple in the Philippines recycle partisan news stories as Facebook-friendly memes. (Ok, maybe this condenses the article a bit too much… I suggest you read it for yourself.)