What were the topics most discussed on Facebook in 2016? – First Time

By EFE Agency 12/09/2016 |10:23 to.m.

The elections of the united States, the scandals of brazilian politicians and the game of augmented reality “Pokemon Go” lead the list of the ten moments most discussed globally on Facebook during this 2016.

The social network today released a ranking of the issues most have given that talk on the platform throughout this year around the world, as well as the live videos that most displays have had.

After the U.s. elections, in which it turned out to be the winner on the republican Donald Trump, the brazilian politicians and “Pokemon Go”, the most popular topics have been the political movement “Black Lives Matter” (“The lives of black matter”) against the murders of black citizens at the hands of white police officers and the election of Rodrigo Duterte as president of the Philippines.

Continue the classification of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the “Brexit”, the musician David Bowie -who died in January-, and the boxer Mohamed Ali, who died in June.

The “top 10″ of live broadcasts seen what leads a video in which a woman, Candace Payne, puts on a mask of the character from Star Wars “Chewbacca”, with 163 million views.

The list continues with the video of the artist of folk Ted Yoder playing “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” with a dulcémele -a stringed instrument-which is an addition of 85 million copies, and the countdown for the portal BuzzFeed for the upcoming US presidential elections, which will be in 2020, which has already been seen over 51 million times.

The list of the ten trends most followed of this social network takes as reference the most commented subjects between 1 January and 27 November of 2016 while the classification of live video, is measured by the number of views accumulated.