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Facebook Will Now Ask Users To Rank News Organizations They Trust (recode.net)

Posted by BeauHD on from the user-generated dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Recode: Facebook is doing a very un-Facebooky thing: It's going to start declaring that some news sources you see in your Facebook feed are better than others, and act accordingly. But Facebook being Facebook, it's going about it in the most Facebooky way possible: It's going to rely on users -- not the super-smart people who work at Facebook -- to figure out which of those sources are better. Mark Zuckerberg says the move is part of an effort to prioritize "news that is trustworthy, informative, and local," within the network and suggests that there will be more announcements to come. The one he describes today will prioritize what kind of news sources pop up in your Facebook News Feed, and will reward ones that Facebook thinks are "broadly trusted," based on user polls, so it can "build a sense of common ground." Facebook is also using today's news to refine last week's roll-out: Zuckerberg says the previously announced changes will reduce the amount of news stories people see in their feed to 4 percent, down from 5 percent.

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  1. Re:Easy. I'll use all my logins by nospam007 · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The alt-right ditto-heads are going to crowdsource these rankings into an echo-chamber in the first 10 minutes."

    So it's good that there are 2 billion alt-left people there too.

  2. The problem for Facebook by aliquis · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... is that the Jew / NWO / Socialist federate plutocracy / technocracy / globalist / 1984 media isn't the one to be trusted.

    Maybe they have created enough sheep to get away with it but if the people decided who knows maybe their brainwashing dumbfuck propaganda sites are the ones which would lose out for the real facts and opinions also from people who don't share their agenda, are loyal or live of their system.

    I know putting Jew in there may have me modded down but /. seem to be infested by SJWs modding anything they don't like down now anyway so.. Anyway Jew is mostly there because they are usually included in the same gang. Call it what you want. I included a bunch of names/subjects.