With Its Novel Lineup Of Funded Word Shows, Facebook Certain Does Hold Off Similar A Media Companionship (Fb)

A pair weeks ago, afterwards years of vehemently denying it was a publisher the fellowship constitute it expedient to claim inward courtroom that it was indeed a publisher. Guardian link afterwards the jump, here's the headliner from Slate, July 16:

And it’s going to bring a tougher fourth dimension explaining why traditional media regulations shouldn’t apply to them.

Facebook has been trying awfully difficult to repair the yesteryear 2 years of harm to its reputation. It’s been running apologetic ads on TV. It’s sent CEO Mark Zuckerberg to show earlier Congress. It’s rolled out novel more people to weed out the undesirable content that slips through the cracks. Advertisers are at 1 time nether who paid for each political ad they meet inward their tidings feeds. 

In the midst of all of this, Facebook has decided to launch a novel inaugural that volition air exclusive TV-news programming from a gain of content providers, including identify names similar Fox News, CNN, Univision, in addition to BuzzFeed. In the thought of the social media behemoth, this represents non exactly a agency to larn users to pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension alongside the platform, but too another agency to combat what it has dubbed “false news.” But the term for the problematic media the platform helped spread isn’t best captured yesteryear false news, or the to a greater extent than ubiquitous fake news. Instead, it’s a category of content that Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project calls “junk news,” which its researchers enjoin provides a to a greater extent than accurate description, since it too applies to all sorts of information that—while non completely fake—still contributes to problematically uninformed, misinformed, bigoted, in addition to hyperpolarized views. It’s an of import distinction inward the diagnosis of Facebook’s problems—and helps explicate why the company’s new, sanctioned tidings programming may goal upward causing to a greater extent than problem than good. 

Facebook famously does everything it tin plough over the axe to avoid beingness categorized every bit a media company. It doesn’t desire to dependent acre itself to technology company providing a forum for the central of viewpoints in addition to information. MORE 

And from The Guardian July 3:

Is Facebook a publisher? In populace it says no, but inward courtroom it says yes
In its defense strength against a erstwhile app startup, Facebook is contradicting its long-held claim to travel exactly a neutral platform

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This is the minute fourth dimension inward a yr we've seen testimony inward a British courtroom wildly at variance alongside the populace pitch.
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