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		gnhrgkai on Jan 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Buzzfeed Lesson Curation is a solved problem: # of retweets/likes/upvotes.

yabatopia on Jan 28, 2019 [–]

That's popularity tracking, not curation.

gnhrgkai on Jan 28, 2019 | [–]

It is curation of the most popular things, which in turn are the ones that matter to most people.

jsgo on Jan 29, 2019 | | [–]

Maybe in the sense of articles it can be of benefit, but with video or images it can be bereft of context which can stray, intentionally or not, towards misinformation.

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