Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says

Buzz Feed ^ | 2 May 2018 | Ben Smith and Mat Honan

[Magnatron]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based on trustworthiness, and promotes or suppresses its content based on that metric.

Zuckerberg said the company has gathered data on how consumers perceive news brands by asking them to identify whether they have heard of various publications and if they trust them.

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The meeting included representatives from BuzzFeed News, the Information, Quartz, the New York Times, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, NBC, Recode, Univision, Barron’s, the Daily Beast, the Economist, HuffPost, Insider, the Atlantic, the New York Post, and others.

[Magnatron]

Interesting that the meeting consisted of the untrustworthy ones...

[butlerweave]

Facebook joins the Fake Club

[Sacajaweau]

He doesn’t believe in Free Speech. He believes in MONEY.

[polymuser]

[DiogenesLamp]

Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says

This may actually prove helpful. We should just use it in reverse.

[Peter W. Kessler]

BuzzFeed News, the Information, Quartz, the New York Times, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, NBC, Recode, Univision, Barron’s, the Daily Beast, the Economist, HuffPost, Insider, the Atlantic, the New York Post, and others...

He left out The Daily Worker.

[originalbuckeye]

And The Guardian........

[No Socialist]

And we’re supposed to “trust” Facebook?

That’s a laugh.

[Savage Beast]

What is an alternative to Facebook?

If there's not one, it's an open invitation for someone to become a billionaire.

[pepsionice]

Why not just ask each person what they want, and what they absolutely don’t want? Other than sharing dog pictures, and cookie recipes....I don’t see much good in using the platform anymore.

[dead]

The Arbiter of Trust.

[No Socialist]

And we’re supposed to “trust” Facebook?

That’s a laugh.

[GSWarrior]

Or Facebook could stop “trending” news stories, and stop trying to be a news source.

[GSWarrior]

Or Facebook could stop “trending” news stories, and stop trying to be a news source.

[budj]

“...ranks news organizations based on trustworthiness...”

We’ve begun to rank social media on trustworthiness, and Flushbook ain’t.

[theoilpainter]

And Fox, apparently.

[Angels27]

This is FAKENEWS

[Blogger]

No Fox I see.

[neverevergiveup]

This is seriously scary. We are headed toward totalitarianism.

[dfwgator]

This is Double Plus Ungood.