Indiana University researchers “have found that steep competition for users’ limited attention means that some ideas go viral despite their low quality — even when people prefer to share high-quality content.”
“Say you read a lot about cooking, and someone similar to you has also read a lot about cooking, but also read a Saturday profile from International about a chef in Italy. We may surface that story in your queue in your newsletter.”
“I think we need to be way more humble. As I often say, technology has value but it doesn’t have values. It’s what we do with it. There’s a lot of bullshit in the Valley.”
“If you took away advertising from the platforms we have currently, if you took away the need to addict people and harvest their data and keep them refreshing their pages, what would that experience look like?”
“I see my role as a sort of reinforcement editor, ensuring that the good stuff is always percolating to the top. Sometimes the news isn’t as neat as an algorithm wants to make it.”
A new study finds asking Facebook users about publishers could “be quite effective in decreasing the amount of misinformation and disinformation circulating on social media” — but Facebook will need to make one important change to its plan.
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Crowdsourcing trusted news sources can work — but not the way Facebook says it’ll do it." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 6 Feb. 2018. Web. 31 Mar. 2023.
APA
Owen, L. (2018, Feb. 6). Crowdsourcing trusted news sources can work — but not the way Facebook says it’ll do it. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 31, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/crowdsourcing-trusted-news-sources-can-work-but-not-the-way-facebook-says-itll-do-it/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Crowdsourcing trusted news sources can work — but not the way Facebook says it’ll do it." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified February 6, 2018. Accessed March 31, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/crowdsourcing-trusted-news-sources-can-work-but-not-the-way-facebook-says-itll-do-it/.
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