I know what you're thinking. "There are people who get their daily news from social postings on Facebook?" Sadly, the answer to that is yes. At any given moment there are over 150 million users roaming Mark Zuckerberg's monstrosity, and you can bet that some percentage of them rarely read anything outside the online utopia. So, while we may not like to admit it, the "trending" section at the upper right of the page has become frighteningly important.
Facebook swears that it determines what's "trending" by analyzing reader preference. If it's popular on the site - meaning it's being read and shared by enough people - it will show up in the "trending module." That would be nice, but we all know Mark Zuckerberg's political leanings. Conservatives have long doubted that the trends were as organic as the company claimed.