It was the first time many Americans saw Rupert Murdoch using his news outlets to advance his interests — and a lesson in how a media mogul’s outside financial ties can taint the editorial product.
Zuckerberg didn’t mention that a big chunk of the content fact-checkers have been flagging is not political speech, but the low-quality spammy clickbait that Meta platforms have commodified.
“Threads’ vibes may have been cheerful and friendly at the outset — disingenuously so, according to Musk — but it may well prove that, eventually, all social media sites regress toward the meanest.”
Facebook stressed that it during this first test it will “showcase local original reporting by surfacing local publications from the largest major metro areas across the country, beginning with New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, Houston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta and Boston.”
“The relationship between us and the publishers is different in a surface where we’re showing the content on the basis of its being high-quality, trustworthy content.”
Owen, Laura Hazard. "If Facebook goes private, where will the misinformation go?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 8 Mar. 2019. Web. 16 Mar. 2025.
APA
Owen, L. (2019, Mar. 8). If Facebook goes private, where will the misinformation go?. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 16, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/if-facebook-goes-private-where-will-the-misinformation-go/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "If Facebook goes private, where will the misinformation go?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 8, 2019. Accessed March 16, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/if-facebook-goes-private-where-will-the-misinformation-go/.
Wikipedia
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