That’s what this is all about. Republicans learned how to use social media, so now Progressives need to make sure that they cannot use it again. I quit Facebook because I no longer trusted it. But now Facebook plans to rank, and suppress, news organizations by the extent to which they are “trusted”! Trusted by whom? I’m sure Faacebook’s editors will trust the New York Times. I do not trust the New York Times, and haven’t since I learned in graduate school (I’m talking about the 1970s) about how they and Walter Duranty lied to cover up the Ukrainian famine for Stalin.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based on trustworthiness, and promotes or suppresses its content based on that metric.
Zuckerberg said the company has gathered data on how consumers perceive news brands by asking them to identify whether they have heard of various publications and if they trust them.
“We put [that data] into the system, and it is acting as a boost or a suppression, and we’re going to dial up the intensity of that over time,” he said. “We feel like we have a responsibility to further [break] down polarization and find common ground.”
Zuckerberg met with a group of news media executives at the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel in Menlo Park after delivering his keynote speech at Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference Tuesday.
The meeting included representatives from BuzzFeed News, the Information, Quartz, the New York Times, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, NBC, Recode, Univision, Barron’s, the Daily Beast, the Economist, HuffPost, Insider, the Atlantic, the New York Post, and others.
The event, called “OTR” (shorthand for “off the record”), is an annual gathering meant for new media news executives to talk shop. It is in its second year. Zuckerberg’s remarks were initially meant to be, like the name of the conference, off the record, but he agreed to answer questions on the record.
THE ABYSS BECKONS! 