Sunday, January 21, 2018

Facebook will ask users to rank trustworthiness of news outlets


Perhaps this shouldn’t be a surprise, coming from the world’s most malevolent and ethically-challenged social media behemoth. As Daniel Kreiss, a professor at the school of media and journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, put it, "Just by putting things out to a vote in terms of what the community would find trustworthy undermines the role for any serious institutionalized process to determine what’s quality and what’s not.”
 

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