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Who or what determines what is Popular News?
A computer algorithm called "news pie". It adds a new article to the popular news page every now and then. It makes sure that articles added to the popular page have enough +hearts and are recent. It also pays attention to the category of the article, so that there aren't too many articles from just one category.
