Facebook Has Begun to Rank News Organizations by Trust, Zuckerberg Says

Re:Facebook Has Begun to Rank News Organizations by Trust, Z... by mooneater on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:37PM (#16978718)

"gathered data on how consumers perceive news brands "

Oh great, its a model based on consumer opinion. And we know loads of people trust Fox news.

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Re:Facebook Has Begun to Rank News Organizations by Trust, Z... by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:56PM (#16978894)

What Fox News says is as trustworthy as any other mainstream news source.

What stories they cover (or ignore) and what details they include (or omit) are where the bias comes from. Every other news source is the same way.

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Re:Facebook Has Begun to Rank News Organizations by Trust, Z... by untog on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @03:50PM (#16980547)

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Re:Facebook Has Begun to Rank News Organizations by Trust, Z... by Armisael16 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @03:52PM (#16980569)

That isn't really what they said, unless you equate 'all mainstream news' and 'all news'.

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Re:Facebook Has Begun to Rank News Organizations by Trust, Z... by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @03:54PM (#16980593)

> unless you equate 'all mainstream news' and 'all mainstream news'.

I suspect there is an error here, as most people would equate those things since they are letter-for-letter identical phrases.

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Re:Facebook Has Begun to Rank News Organizations by Trust, Z... by Armisael16 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:06PM (#16980688)

Yep. Fixed, thanks for pointing it out.

(Not that any of this is relevant, I guess, since the post I responded to was deleted?)

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