Dogs’ AFL season and the premiership ranked 7th on Facebook’s most talked-about topics in Australia during 2016

The Dogs’ historic season and the AFL Grand Final ranked seventh on Facebook’s most talked-about topics in Australia during a year that wasn’t short on huge news stories.

The social media giant has released its year-in-review data, analysing and aggregating Australians’ posts by tallying how many times a topic was mentioned on the platform.

The US election was unsurprisingly the most-talked about topic online, while Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull also caught the attention of users.

Facebook’s most talked-about topics in Australia in 2016

1. US elections
2. Malcolm Turnbull
3. Shark attacks
4. David Bowie
5. Pokemon Go
6. Pauline Hanson
7. Western Bulldogs and AFL Grand Final
8. Brexit
9. Rodrigo Duterte
10. Olympics

Also: Non AFL Source.