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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).
(Score: 3, Informative) by bobthecimmerian on Monday January 22 2018, @01:54PM (3 children)
the most...dishonest.
Most dishonest? How's that 30 day plan to defeat ISIS working out for you? The master of the "art of the deal" got his first legislative victory in office in December - and after he and his party spent the last eight years savaging the Democrats for the budget deficit they funded their tax cuts in a booming economy by growing the budget deficit. The guy who said, "If I was President, I would be too busy working for the American people to go golfing" took eleven trips to Mar-a-lago in his first year.
That said, Hillary was a terrible candidate and is a terrible person. The Democrat establishment did need a big shake up, and it's clear a lot of their leaders still didn't get the message. Trump got the red state vote by lying. Hillary lost the red state vote by spending the last thirty years acting like red states and their citizens are irrelevant. The Democrat central leadership have been the "party of the working class as long as you live on a coastline" for too long, and the fact that Hillary had to play games to beat Bernie Sanders and then lost the general election against a fool is all the evidence you need.
But don't troll me and tell me Hillary is more dishonest, corrupt, and unethical than Trump. As bad as she was, he still makes her look like a saint.
(Score: 1) by EEMac on Monday January 22 2018, @02:52PM
Just fine, thank you. [nationalreview.com]
New splinter gangs of
nutballsextremists have sprung up [newsweek.com] from the ashes, but that's not really a surprise given the politics of the region.(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday January 22 2018, @05:47PM (1 child)
Trump sucks and I didn't vote for him, but at the time of the election, it is worth pointing out that he had never cackled in glee over killing anyone like Clinton did. He'll probably catch up but at that time at least, she was clearly the far more evil POS.
(Score: 1) by bobthecimmerian on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:44AM
So he can advocate for going after the wives and children of terrorists, but he's okay. She cackles (when?) and she's worse?