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Saturday, January 13, 2018

Zuckerberg Considers 'Prioritizing' News Sources

Facebook is mulling how it prioritizes news stories in users' feeds — giving better placement to outlets it sees as more trustworthy and weed out fake news, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported the new approach involves evaluating things like public polling about news outlets, and whether readers are willing to pay for news from particular publishers.

Such variables would then go into its algorithm that determines which publishers' posts are pushed higher in the feed, the Journal reported.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Read as . . . Zuckerberg's CIA bosses will let him know soon if the news will be prioritized on Facebook.