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by 21 3743 days ago
And it's not only Facebook.

These Brussels attacks have wall-to-wall coverage on all news stations, including local ones, unlike the Turkish blasts which were covered much less and only by the major outlets.

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Maybe it is because such blasts are more common in country which wages a civil war against a part of his inhabitants.
Belgium can be looked at this way too.

Belgium wages war against ISIS as a part of NATO, and ISIS includes some Belgian citizens, so they wage war against them. It's just they are further away than Kurds. But as we can see, explosion-wise, this makes small difference.

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> And it's not only Facebook.

It goes without saying. My statement was meant to be general.