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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 22 2018, @08:12PM (4 children)
You're misunderstanding what all makes up "the establishment". It's not remotely just Republicans. It's not even mostly Republicans; they're a very small part. Here're the major players that go into "the establishment":
With minor league appearances by every other company or industry that pays a lobbying firm.
This is why I laugh so hard at the regressive shitheads who think they're fighting the establishment. They're not fighting the establishment, they're its tools. They're just too fucking stupid to see it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday January 22 2018, @08:42PM (3 children)
Really? Your use of universal statements seems a bit overly sweeping, assuming your definition of "establishment" means something along the lines of "an entrenched group of rich and/or powerful people who control the rest of society".
For example, "random blogger who manages to make enough money from it to survive" is part of the "professional media". You really think that person's part of the establishment?
How about the people in your local bar band? They're part of the entertainment industry.
How about all the teachers you had, the adjunct faculty and community college instructors, and the grad students living on a generous $10K a year. They're all part of the educational industry, but I'd be hard-pressed to consider them part of the "establishment".
Not even the government bureaucrats necessarily qualify. For example, I'm acquainted with a guy whose civil service job was testing gold shipments to the US mint for impurities - he certainly wasn't getting rich or powerful from that. Same for the people at the FAA whose job it is to issue aircraft repair directives on a daily basis.
Also, a lot of the players you put in the "minor league" don't seem minor to me. The financial industry, who can commit crimes with impunity and crash the world economy and get rewarded for it isn't part of the establishment? The oil industry, who can and frequently does decide whether the US or its allies are going to war? Military contractors, who go absurdly over budget on the taxpayer dime for boondoggle projects like the F-35 and are never penalized for it in any way?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:12PM (2 children)
Yes, really. The ability to kill or inconvenience a lot of people is inconsequential compared to the ability to control what people believe.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:31PM (1 child)
Wow. That's odd logic. "If you're dead, but can believe whatever you like, that's freedom!" Got it.
Plus you're casually ignoring the many entities that I mentioned that rob people to such a degree that a 5% tax hike would be pleasant by comparison.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:53PM
What part of "give me liberty or give me death" is it that really escapes you? Is it honestly your opinion that it's better to live as a slave than die as a free man?
Yes, they weren't worth mentioning. Material possessions are of less consequence than life and life of less consequence than liberty.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.