“These moves may hurt the firms’ finances, but they would also demonstrate serious and lasting commitment to limiting their platforms’ usefulness in political manipulation campaigns.”
Publishers’ “pivot to video” was driven largely by a belief that if Facebook was seeing users, in massive numbers, shift to video from text, the trend must be real.
“Currently, most tech investigations of Facebook…may have technically violated Facebook’s TOS. But without violating those rules, journalists can’t investigate our most important platform for public discourse.”
Plus: Anger trumps love (in Facebook reactions to legislators’ posts), the most-shared news sources on right-wing social network Gab, and connections between Macedonian teens and U.S. conservatives.
The Cambridge Analytica story is a reminder of the value of a trusted, direct connection between publisher and consumer. Building more of them is the news industry’s best strategy available.
“If someone feels that being on Facebook is not good for your business, you shouldn’t be on Facebook. Let’s be clear about that…I don’t see us as the answer to the problem.”
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. 21 Mar. 2025.
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 21, 2025, 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 21, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/crowdsourcing-trusted-news-sources-can-work-but-not-the-way-facebook-says-itll-do-it/.
Wikipedia
{{cite web
| url = https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/crowdsourcing-trusted-news-sources-can-work-but-not-the-way-facebook-says-itll-do-it/
| title = Crowdsourcing trusted news sources can work — but not the way Facebook says it’ll do it
| last = Owen
| first = Laura Hazard
| work = [[Nieman Journalism Lab]]
| date = 6 February 2018
| accessdate = 21 March 2025
| ref = {{harvid|Owen|2018}}
}}
