Social media giant Facebook
will prioritize “trustworthy” news in its feed of social media posts, using
user surveys to identify quality outlets and fight sensationalism, polarization and
fack news, Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday.
Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a blog
post that the company was not "comfortable" deciding which news
sources are the most trustworthy in a "world with so much division."
"There's
too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world
today. 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" Mark Zuckerberg wrote.
The
quality of news on Facebook has been called into question after alleged Russian
operatives, for-profit spammers and others spread false reports on the site,
including during the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
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