Facebook aims to provide reliable news "Journalism Project" launched efforts to strengthen news distribution

In the SNS where many people interact, the voices questioning that information of lie and hoax flies like if it is true, and that it is often easily spread as "truth" easily I am going up. In the meantime, Facebook sends out trusted news information, and efforts for users to take it properly "Facebook Journalism Project"Has been started.

Introducing: The Facebook Journalism Project | Facebook Media
https://media.fb.com/2017/01/11/facebook-journalism-project/


With regard to SNS, which is representative of Facebook, there were raising questions that seemed to be easy to diffuse deterable news and hoaxes that were not properly underpinned. Especially in the US presidential election in November 2016, it is said that false news diffused on Facebook had a big influence on election results, and the situation where the "reliability of news sources" is questioned again It was getting.

And the Facebook Journalism Project launched by the brunt of its criticism is the face. In this project, we are trying to make sure the reliability of news on Facebook on the following three perspectives.

◆ 1: Joint development of news products
Facebook has been producing news content jointly with partner companies such as news organizations, but in the new project we will further strengthen our efforts in various areas and jointly develop from the early stage Thing.

Developing functions such as existing live video distribution, 360 ° movies, and "Instant Articles" (Instant Articles) that directly displays articles on news media on Facebook applications, while answering the needs of the press, for a whole news It will advance the development of the format. One editor said that they wanted to provide a packaged version of articles that gathered articles to readers who often read articles on Facebook, and it seems that development at an early stage is underway .

Also, on the local news that the start point of excellent journalism is in the local news, Facebook supports regional news media and is also promoting efforts to boost the growth of independent media. In addition, we are planning to work together to build a reliable news product jointly by building a new business model, hosting Hackason and listening to the voices of various news media.

◆ 2: Providing training and tools for journalists
Facebook will be able to learn Facebook products, tools and services for journalists within the next few monthsLearning course of e-learningWe plan to start offering. On Facebook, we are working on an effort to face journalists all over the world on gathering information on Facebook content, delivering the news, and attracting readers, but in the future we will be doing a lot of prominent journalism We will proceed with the provision of training content jointly with related organizations.

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In addition, it is decided to offer the tool "CrowdTangle" which measures the performance of the content that Facebook acquired in November 2016 free of charge to the media in partner relationship.

◆ 3: Training and tools for Facebook users provided
Like Facebook for journalists like news providers, Facebook will provide enough information to promote efforts to enable meaningful exchange of opinions.

Tools that make it easy for anyone to report fake information flowing on Facebook, elimination of monetary incentives that are hotbeds creating spam content, and "fact checking to confirm the credibility of content" We work together with trusted third-party organizations to conduct initiatives to improve the "media literacy" that users can see the reliability of the media.

ByRoo Reynolds