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posted by martyb on Monday January 22 2018, @06:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes dept.

Facebook to Prioritize 'Trustworthy' News Sources

Facebook Inc will begin to prioritize "trustworthy" news outlets on its stream of social media posts as it works to combat "sensationalism" and "misinformation," Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday.

The company, which has more than 2 billion monthly users, said it will use surveys to determine rankings on how trustworthy news outlets are.

Zuckerberg outlined the shakeup in a post on Facebook, saying that starting next week the News Feed, the company's centerpiece product, would prioritize "high quality news" over less trusted sources.

"There's too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today," Zuckerberg wrote.

"Social media enables people to spread information faster than ever before, and if we don't specifically tackle these problems, then we end up amplifying them," he wrote.

At the same time, Zuckerberg said the amount of news overall on Facebook would shrink to roughly 4 percent of the content on the News Feed from 5 percent currently.

Source: Reuters

The new Facebook echochamber where users decide what is trustworthy

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/01/trusted-sources/

Facebook is going to let its user rate what is a trustworthy news source. Could be great (One would think they assume the pure number of people will try and do a good and honest job), or it will undoubtedly enforce the echo chamber / bubble mentality (where people think that their news source are all trustworthy and the opposing sources are all fake news) or it will end hilariously (like when Microsoft let the public train its AI chatbot Tay and it went all Hitler on them in record time).


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Monday January 22 2018, @09:06AM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday January 22 2018, @09:06AM (#626006) Journal

    Oprah-Zuckerberg 2020. Because Oprah can work a crowd while Zuckerberg continues his quest [nytimes.com] to grasp the essence [kwwl.com] of human emotions [shortlist.com].

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Monday January 22 2018, @12:18PM (2 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday January 22 2018, @12:18PM (#626043) Homepage Journal

    What a pair! One is looking for a brain.🧠 The other is looking for a heart.❤️ Dr. Jackson says I have both! He says I'm going to have "years of event-free living." I'm a very tough person, but I have a big heart.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Monday January 22 2018, @06:51PM (1 child)

      by Thexalon (636) on Monday January 22 2018, @06:51PM (#626181)

      You left out a couple of other characters: Nancy Pelosi is on a quest to locate her courage. And Ron Estes has recently learned that he's not in Kansas anymore.

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      • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday January 23 2018, @01:21AM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday January 23 2018, @01:21AM (#626375) Homepage Journal

        That's very funny. It's not funny. Because we have a party made up of nothing but HATERS, LOSERS & OBSTRUCTIONISTS. They have no ideas, they can only obstruct. And they're not even any good at that. They shut our government down for the weekend. But they come to work on Monday, there's nobody in the Senate Cafeteria. There's no Hot Lunch. And they lose their courage. They cave. They give up. They fold. They have NO BALLS. Don't get me wrong, shutting down our government was a terrible thing to do. It's a thing that can absolutely kill our economy. The economy that I've worked SO HARD to get going again. But if you're going to do it, you do it right. You keep it up for a month. A couple of months, maybe. The American people start to feel some pain. And you'll get your way. They didn't get their way. Unfortunately for our wonderful Dreamers. I'm with our Dreamers, 100%. I gave them an extra 6 months with DACA. The Dems say they want DACA, they say they support our Dreamers. And maybe that's true. If it's true, it's very sad. I've done a lot more for our Dreamers than the Dems have. Because I NEVER GIVE UP! If the cafeteria is closed, I bring a bag lunch. Or I bring McDonalds. Or KFC.

        Folks, the Dems didn't do this for the Dreamers. They did it to FRUSTRATE me. They made me miss my fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, at the Winter White House. They tried to ruin the celebration of my first year, of finishing my first year. A lot of people turned out, a lot of people marched, it was beautiful. No thanks to nasty Dems! They tried to make me look bad, they didn't make me look bad. They made themselves look bad. To anyone who didn't already see!