Friday, 25 October 2019

Facebook News goes live in the United States

In an attempt to put an end to misinformation and fake news, Facebook has decided to start testing a dedicated place for news in the United States. Suggestively named Facebook News, the new channel features curated news picked by Facebook, which are delivered to a subset of people in the US.

Facebook News will ultimately feature a wide range of content across four categories of publishers: general, topical, diverse and local news. After surveying 100,000 people on Facebook in the US about what topic they were most interested in, the social network learned that many topics were under-served, ...

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