Velocity Alert: Why Brussels mattered and Istanbul didn't: The double standard on terror

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THIS STORY IS ABOUT TO GO VIRAL

Why Brussels mattered and Istanbul didn't: The double standard on terror As European monuments lit up in the colors of the Belgian flag after Tuesday's bombings, those of us in Turkey felt, once again, how starkly different the world media covers terrorist attacks in our country. How does Mashable know what's going viral? Mashable built a system called Velocity, which scours the social web, collecting lots and lots of data around how people are engaging with published articles. It then pulls all of that data back to Mashable, dumps it into our own predictive engine, and predicts which articles are about to go viral. Read more at Mashable.com ▶ Mashable, Inc. is a Delaware Corporation. P.O. Box 64 New York, NY, 10159-0064

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