5 Questions About Facebook's Plan to Rate Media by 'Trustworthiness'
What could go wrong?
by Alexis C. Madrigal
Jan 19, 2018
3 minutes
Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that Facebook will begin surveying users about which news sources they trust, in an effort to rank publications on “trustworthiness.” This rating will help determine media companies’ placement in the News Feed, thereby materially changing the traffic that their stories receive.
Zuckerberg provided only a cursory description of the survey methodology. “As part of our ongoing quality surveys, we will now ask people whether they’re familiar with a news source and, if so, whether they
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