News Corp’s painfully named news aggregator promised to somehow battle “crass clickbait,” filter bubbles, media bias, and two trillion-dollar companies, all at once. It ended up being a D-minus Drudge clone and OnlyFans blog.
“Many of our interviewees had little direct experience with news, yet they ‘knew’ they could not trust it, or found it boring, or that it was part of a shady system intended to hide important matters from them.”
BuzzFeed’s fake-news reporter outlines some of the dangers ahead: “We have a human problem on our hands. Our cognitive abilities are in some ways overmatched by what we have created.”
Washington-Harmon, Taylyn. "That friends-and-family Facebook algorithm change doesn’t seem to be hurting traffic to news sites." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 12 Aug. 2016. Web. 22 Sep. 2023.
APA
Washington-Harmon, T. (2016, Aug. 12). That friends-and-family Facebook algorithm change doesn’t seem to be hurting traffic to news sites. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved September 22, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/08/that-friends-and-family-facebook-algorithm-change-doesnt-seem-to-be-hurting-traffic-to-news-sites/
Chicago
Washington-Harmon, Taylyn. "That friends-and-family Facebook algorithm change doesn’t seem to be hurting traffic to news sites." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 12, 2016. Accessed September 22, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/08/that-friends-and-family-facebook-algorithm-change-doesnt-seem-to-be-hurting-traffic-to-news-sites/.
Wikipedia
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