20 Days Out: Facebook Allows Trivial News to Trend over Important Stories Before Midterms

With only 20 days left until the 2022 midterm elections, the top five news stories that Facebook is pushing to its users include Wawa launching a new hoagie and Tom Brady comparing the labor of NFL season to military deployment. Meanwhile, the issues that matter to voters are not chosen by Mark Zuckerberg's algorithm to trend on the platform.