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Articles tagged Trust Project (3)

Joshua BentonOctober 31, 2018

This new project wants to do for news trust what FiveThirtyEight does for polls: Aggregate a bunch of signals into something meaningful

“The goal is to make those signals more useful and to help platforms…make better, more informed decisions about ranking and ad purchases — which we hope will help drive both promotion and financial support to quality news and away from disinformation, misinformation, and junk.”

David SkokMay 10, 2018

Google’s news chief Richard Gingras: “We need to rethink journalism at every dimension”

“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.”

Shan WangJanuary 25, 2018

Facebook’s trust survey, which will help determine News Feed ranking, is two questions. But it’s not as simple as it sounds

What’s clear is that Facebook has plenty of data from users already, which it can — will — use in conjunction with its two-question survey.