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Over 50% of the posts are Trump. I would really like to see someone make an app that focuses on filtering through the click-bait articles we're fed to actually break news into important events and subjects.

I guess I don't consider "most shares" a good way to rank. Bush, Obama, then Trump always are at the top unless some other celebrity does something big.

Looks really nice, good job!

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Thank you. Unfortunately, thats what is trending currently. I get your point though. Im thinking of adding an ability to filter by keyword or category. Also I want to explore if I can group the same news to avoid echos, such as iphone X launch or something.

How would the feed look if you filtered, say,the most shared top 10%?

Edit: Filtered out, I meant to say.

I tried, but it doesnt fix the fundamental problem

I've been gathering stories from a collection of prominent news sites for about a year, and apparently the media just loves writing about Trump. It's consistently been the most prominent keyword (in number / ratio of occurrances). So that's not necessarily the author's fault.

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