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Facebook News is off to a rough start
- Fellshard 7y agoWhile the article could have spent its time going into specific critiques of the sources Facebook chooses to include, citing a quote from a Verge article and then listing a large assortment of tweets that are longer than the rest of the editorial content hardly counts as a decent article. Are there other sources that cover this topic more robustly?
- joegahona 7y agohttps://www.niemanlab.org/2019/10/newsonomics-will-facebooks-new-news-tab-be-a-milestone-or-millstone/ https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/10/newsonomics-will-facebooks...
- davidw 7y agoThis is some good relevant background: https://popular.info/p/the-republican-political-operatives https://popular.info/p/the-republican-political-operatives
- minimaxir 7y agoGiven that said tweets are from a Facebook exec, they're noteworthy on their own.
- jakelazaroff 7y agoI don't think Facebook understands what "news" is. Mark Zuckerberg is quoted as saying "Part of having this be a trusted source is that it needs to have a diversity of views in there, so I think you want to have content that represents different perspectives." If "diversity of views" means "covering a wide range of people and topics", sure. But Breitbart isn't doing that — they're covering mainstream politics from a far-right perspective with sensational and often false articles. No one objectively reads Breitbart and thinks it's in the same league as the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. Facebook is basically eroding our political discourse in order to kowtow to a vocal minority of conservative users and talking heads.
- schnevets 7y agoBetween this and the slow-selling Facebook Portal, I can only assume the C-Suite doesn't realize the problematic images the brand now evokes.