Along with Facebook announcing the first major changes to its News Feed, the social media service will begin ranking news sources based on trustworthiness as it prioritizes information. Rather than determining news source trustworthiness itself, Facebook will let users decide.
Shared by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook post this afternoon, the second major change after cutting out news and promoted content in its efforts to “refocus the system,” is to “make sure the news you see, while less overall, is high quality.”
Zuckerberg says that there is too much misinformation and sensationalism and that if it isn’t addressed, social media like Facebook will inflate these problems.
As for how to achieve this goal of high quality news, Facebook will look for content to be trustworthy, informative, and local. The company will start by tackling the trustworthiness aspect first. After some difficulty, Zuckerberg and Facebook decided to let users rank news source trustworthiness.
Here are the specifics of how this new change will work:
Zuckerberg hopes that these latest two News Feed changes will create more “meaningful interactions” and help people feel their time on Facebook is “well spent.”
What do you think? Is this latest change to let users rank news source trustworthiness a good approach? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments below!
