Year in review season is here and Facebook’s entry is big on major news.
The social network parsed all the posts from its 1.5 billion active users and pulled together a list of the topics that sparked the most discussion in 2015. Hard news crowded out everything else; US politics, terror attacks, an earthquake in Nepal, the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling, the Greek debt crisis, protests in Baltimore and a mass shooting in Charleston are all represented.
The US presidential election topped the list, a somewhat surprising fact given the global scope of the survey of Facebook posts from Jan. 1 to Dec. 1. But then with Donald Trump in the mix, there’s bound to be heat and the business mogul-turned reality star-turned polarizing candidate brought in Facebook crowds even with seemingly uninspiring posts like this one:
https://web.facebook.com/video.php?v=10156164997075725
