Politico reports that Facebook is mining data on its users’ political views and plans to share those insights with ABC News and BuzzFeed for use in their reporting in 2016. The data will be collected from users 18 and older in the U.S. and will classify political sentiment as positive, negative or neutral. Facebook Director of News and Global Media Partnerships Andy Mitchell said, “Given the volume of conversation around politics on Facebook, we believe this data truly represents what the American people think about the potential candidates.” A Facebook spokesperson said the data “is gathered in an aggregated and depersonalized manner in a privacy-safe way.”
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