[Lazy person] Facebook is attacking the media again: social power dominates news reach [Updated on the morning of January 27]

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In just a few days, the attack started again. It was clear that Facebook was targeting the media this time!

Facebook announced that it will soon prioritize media news display based on user surveys and user evaluations of news. In other words, in the future, Facebook will give priority to displaying local, credible and high-quality news information, allowing netizens to help rate news media.

Even on the weekend, there is still no time to spare. The “Content Hacker” website has compiled domestic and foreign reports and comments for you as follows, please refer to them.

Original Facebook source:

• Facebook Newsroom: News Feed FYI: Helping Ensure News on Facebook Is From Trusted Sources (opens in a new tab)

• Mark Zuckerberg: Today I’m sharing our second major update this year: to make sure the news you see, while less overall, is high quality. (opens in a new tab)

Reports and comments from Taiwan:

• INSIDE: Facebook actually uses a two-question questionnaire to determine the quality of media? (opens in a new tab)

• INSIDE: Who should pay whom? News media tycoon Rupert Murdoch: Facebook should pay high-quality media! (opens in a new tab)

• INSIDE: [News] The end of bad media! Facebook tweaks its algorithm again to ask you to rate news media (opens in a new tab)

• Knowing: Reliable ones are given priority, Facebook dynamic ranking will consider media reliability (opens in a new tab)

• SmartM: As Facebook cuts off news and returns to its social nature, what’s the next step for the media? (opens in a new tab)

• Technews: Facebook’s new changes require users to rank news media (opens in a new tab)

• Technews: Facebook will investigate media trustworthiness, “The Atlantic” asks 5 questions (opens in a new tab)

• Sanli News: Facebook is undergoing major reforms! Users can rate news media (opens in a new tab)

• Central News Agency: Facebook’s new changes require users to sort news media (opens in a new tab)

• China Times Electronic News: Facebook algorithm changes again, asking 2 billion users to help sort news media (opens in a new tab)

• Free Times: Control the life and death of the media! Facebook will use user ratings to determine news exposure (opens in a new tab)

• Play life. Le Technology: Facebook will give priority to showing trusted media content, New York Times stock price surges 9% (opens in a new tab)

• Convergence News Network: Facebook lets users rate media credibility, independent media worries about survival (opens in a new tab)

• United News Network: Fighting fake news, Facebook comes up with new tactics (opens in a new tab)

• Digital era: To reform media chaos, Facebook invites 2 billion users to rank and rank news media (opens in a new tab)

• ★(new) Digital Age: Who are the beneficiaries of Facebook’s algorithm change? LINE: Indeed creates some new needs (opens in a new tab)

• Apple Daily: Major changes in Facebook require users to rate news media (opens in a new tab)

• Li Quanxing: Is Facebook asking users to evaluate the credibility of media is an attempt destined to be restructured or cancelled (opens in a new tab)

• Huang Yuqi: Facebook decided to take action on the media: I have been waiting for this moment for a long time (opens in a new tab)

Foreign reports and comments:

• Business Insider: Facebook is asking users to pick which news outlets are ‘trustworthy’ — and will demote the losers in your feed

• CNET: Facebook will ask us to decide what’s ‘high quality’ news (opens in a new tab)

• Fast Company: Can we trust Facebook’s users to decide what news we should trust? (opens in a new tab)

• Forbes: Facebook To Prioritize ‘Trustworthy’ Publishers In News Feed (opens in a new tab)

• NPR: Facebook Moves To Decide What Is Real News (opens in a new tab)

• Reuters: Facebook to prioritize ‘trustworthy’ news based on surveys (opens in a new tab)

• ★(new) Social Media Examiner: Facebook Zero: The Changing News Feed and What Marketers Need to Know (opens in a new tab)

• The Atlantic: 5 Questions About Facebook’s Plan to Rate Media by ‘Trustworthiness’ (opens in a new tab)

• The Washington Post: Facebook will now ask users to rank news organizations they trust (opens in a new tab)

• VentureBeat: Facebook’s News Feed will soon prioritize stories that are trustworthy, informative, or local (opens in a new tab)

• WIRED: Facebook’s latest fix for fake news: ask user what they trust (opens in a new tab)

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Further reading

• [Lazy Person] Facebook takes another move, increasing the display ratio of local news [Updated on the evening of February 1st]
• [Lazy Persons Bag] The sky will not fall: Facebook’s response to reducing the reach of fan pages [Updated on the afternoon of January 31st]