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| Subject: I Can't Believe How Stupid Facebook's News Feed Update Is Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:54 am | |
| Facebook has been teasing a massive overhaul to the News Feed - its core product - after widespread, utterly deserved criticism that it had acted as a megaphone for disinformation on an unprecedented scale. Today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced how his platform will handle news, and it's quite possibly the stupidest solution imaginable.
"Today I'm sharing our second major update this year: to make sure the news you see, while less overall, is high quality," Zuckerberg wrote, decrying the "sensationalism, misinformation and polarization" that Facebook had an outsized hand in creating. If there's anything we learned from the advent of "fake news" and its spread across social media at alarming rates, it's that most people have abysmal media literacy, and struggle when tasked to separate verified information from hogwash. So what's the fix that Facebook - a massive, profitable company that employs some of the smartest people - chose to pursue?
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/01/i-cant-believe-how-stupid-facebooks-news-feed-update-is/ |
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