Why go looking for the news when the news can come looking for you?

In the three months since Facebook announced a platform for creating Messenger bots, developers have made more than 11,000 of them (according to Facebook). There are bots for shopping, bots for weather announcements and, yes, bots for news.

On Tuesday the Washington Post entered the fray with its own messenger bot — a bot that focuses, for now, on top stories, election news and (soon) Olympics alerts.

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