Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.
A large majority of Americans believe that social media companies favor some news organizations over others. About eight. in. ten U.S. adults say social media sites treat some news organizations differently than others, about five times the share saying all news organizations are treated the same.
Social media companies do have established policies (26)_________ it comes to publishers, including prioritizing certain news sources, banning or limiting others that produce lower-quality content, and using their monetization policies to discourage particular behaviors.
Among those U.S. adults (27)_________ say social media companies treat some news organizations differently than others, there is broad agreement that they (28)_________ three types -those that produce attention-grabbing articles, those with a high number of social media followers and those whose coverage has a certain political stance.
While large social media companies have announced (29)_________ to favor high-quality news publishers in an effort to improve the news on their sites, (30)_________ who say some news organizations are treated differently believe social media companies favor organizations that are well-established, have high reporting standards or have politically neutral coverage.
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