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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Did Facebook’s faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 17 Oct. 2018. Web. 28 Mar. 2025.
APA
Owen, L. (2018, Oct. 17). Did Facebook’s faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video?. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 28, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/did-facebooks-faulty-data-push-news-publishers-to-make-terrible-decisions-on-video/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Did Facebook’s faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 17, 2018. Accessed March 28, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/did-facebooks-faulty-data-push-news-publishers-to-make-terrible-decisions-on-video/.
Wikipedia
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| date = 17 October 2018
| accessdate = 28 March 2025
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