The social media titan says the rankings will determine placement in its News Feed feature.
― Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a meeting Tuesday with media executives that the company has begun implementing a system of ranking news organizations by trust, relying on user surveys to determine which news sources are “broadly trusted.”
News organizations that scored higher on the ranking would be promoted in Facebook’s News Feed, while those with lower trust scores would be suppressed, Zuckerberg said. The effort is part of Facebook’s pledge to “take a broader view of our responsibilities,” he said after a bruising year in which the platform has been criticized for being used to undermine elections, foment division and spread hate speech.Zuckerberg’s remarks came after his keynote address at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, in which he unveiled a series of new features on the platform. He met with executives from The New York Times, BuzzFeed, Atlantic Media, CNN, News Corp., HuffPost and other news organizations at a conference of media leaders convened by The Information, a technology news site.
The usually reticent CEO has been on a charm offensive of sorts in the last month, testifying before Congress, granting extensive interviews to news organizations and speaking contritely and publicly about how the company he started in his Harvard dorm room has grown to have an unanticipated and highly negative impact on democracy across the globe.Zuckerberg said that Facebook has a responsibility to help reduce polarization and help people find “common ground” and that a shared set of facts and a common understanding of truth is essential for democracy.
“It’s not useful if someone’s just kind of repeating the same thing and attempting to polarize or drive people to the extremes,” Zuckerberg said.He said he hoped Facebook could help find sustainable business models for journalism...
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Helpfully, in November 2016 the Washington Post pushed to the forefront of public consciousness the PropOrNot website, so Zuck's work is half-done before he even breaks a sweat.
Some of the reviews of that earlier effort:
The Intercept — Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
The New Yorker — The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda
The Nation — ‘The Washington Post’ Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist
Columbia Journalism Review — Washington Post fake news story blurs the definition of fake news
Columbia Journalism Review — Washington Post fake news story blurs the definition of fake news
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And our contributions:
And our contributions:
And just to be clear, when I called some of the WaPo folks a bunch of 'Bozos', that was just a typo.Pope Francis—"Media That Focus on Scandals and Spread Fake News to Smear Politicians Risk Becoming Like People Who Have a Morbid Fascination with Excrement"
I meant 'Bezos', they're a bunch of Bezos.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
From Naked Capitalism:
Site Behind Washington Post’s McCarthyite Blacklist Appears To Be Linked to Ukrainian Fascists and CIA Spies
Washington Post Says Their Fake News Story May Be Fake News
'Fake News' Site Threatens Washington Post With Real Lawsuit
BOMBSHELL: Prince Was Secretly Married, Died To Protect CIA Connection !!!
