On this episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, Recode's Senior Social Media Editor Kurt Wagner talks with Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode about how Facebook is trying to fix its «fake news» problem — by showing
users less news and asking them to rank the credibility of media outlets.
Not exact matches
McCue says that using human editors (as Apple (aapl) also does for its curated
news feature), makes Flipboard much
less susceptible to the «fake
news» problem that some
users have complained about on Facebook (fb).
Though Facebook has committed to fixing the
news feed in a way that
users end up seeing more posts from friends and
less from publishers, the company is still trying to improve its relationship with
news items.
As TechCrunch reported when
news of that experiment first broke, to impact users» moods, Facebook showed them less positive posts in their News F
news of that experiment first broke, to impact
users» moods, Facebook showed them
less positive posts in their
News F
News Feed.
Facebook Inc. said it's making major changes to its flagship social network, shifting
users»
news feeds back toward posts from friends and family and away from businesses and media outlets — a transition that is likely to mean people spend
less time on the site.
2) Update for right balance of content for people with many connections: The update, which Facebook calls as the Balance of content, aims to bring the content posted by the friends of the
user such as photos, videos, links etc higher up in the
News Feed so that they are
less likely to miss it.
Roughly translated, it means that Facebook
users will see
lesser promotional content on their
news feed beginning January 2015.
1) Update for People with
less content available: The first update targets the
users who have
less content available to see in their
News feed.
If they do, «you'll see a flag on the story saying it has been disputed, and that story may be
less likely to show up in
News Feed,» though,
users can still «read and share the story.»
Likely an Ohio State fan, this Twitter
user, who says he's from Cincinnati, seems
less than pleased with the
news:
Controversial internet entrepreneur turned cultural critic Andrew Keen, who says the revolution of interactivity and
user - generated content on the internet is leading to «
less culture,
less reliable
news and a chaos of useless information» is one contributor certain to ignite debate at the two - day conference, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through its e-Society programme.
Before revealing his results in the current issue of Journalism Practice, Goyanes explains just what the paid online
news model is up against, stating that» [This] study shows that online
users were more likely to pay for those digital products whose main value proposition consists of providing entertainment (music) and solutions (software and apps), but
less likely to pay for those providing knowledge (such as an online newspaper).»
The problem for investors despite the good
news is that these older sites have gotten
less attention in Match Group's overall valuation, because they aren't generating the
users or attention that Tinder does on an ongoing basis, despite their longevity in the online dating market.
Now, a whole new form of journalism and digital
news publishing is being beta tested by Reddit, the platform that brings
users slightly
less intense content on a daily basis.
In term of
user interface, Android 3.0 is efficient although
less intuitive, some software features are better than the iPad 2: — the browser supports Flash — the browser
user interface is better — the camera application and the photo gallery offer more functions — the maps application packs more features — the widgets are great to get updates about
news (CNN widget), calendar and emails instantly from the home screen
Most app
users still rely on
less than five different
news sources or apps on the tablets.
Those who have paid for
news are
less likely than browser
users to be conservative, 20 % versus 30 % of those who have not paid, 38 % of those who have paid describe themselves as liberal as do 29 % of those who have not paid).
On Tuesday, an analyst broke the
news that Zynga's
users are spending
less time on its very popular gaming platforms.
Who knows, maybe it will even become socially acceptable... In the video below, YouTube
user Mary Greeley expresses surprise that ABC
News would post, in its money section no
less, a relatively positive article about the practice of Freeganism, and the rise of dumpster diving, in these hard economic times.
If a
user doesn't interact often or hasn't interacted recently with your Page, you're
less likely to show up in their
News Feed, regardless of when you post.
This may lead Internet
users to question the accuracy of an online
news source, particularly if it is
less well known.
It's been
less than two weeks since the dramatic
news emerged that Facebook had allowed a company called Cambridge Analytica to commercially data mine the profiles of 50 million Facebook
users.
That test didn't go so well — surveyed
users said that they were «
less satisfied» with their
news feed and that the change didn't have the indented goal of helping
users connect more with friends and family.
Now this is welcome
news for those
users who think that in the age of Live Photos and 4K videos, 16 GB is a very
less space.
Starting next Monday, Facebook will also introduce a link at the top of the
News Feed to let all
users see what apps are installed and what information has been shared with those apps to make it easy for
less technically savvy
Altering the software code behind the
news feed, arguably the most significant changes made at Facebook since it went public in 2012, will affect
users in a number of ways too, a fact that Facebook executives say is likely to lead to
less time spent on the platform.
Facebook ran an experiment on almost 689,000
users in which it tweaked the algorithm running their
news feed to display slightly more or slightly
less status updates from friends that contained positive or negative words.
Data from the Pew Spring 2017 Global Attitudes Survey suggests that in Facebook's top 10 markets, some important countries, such as India and Indonesia, have
less than 20 per cent of
users relying on social media for
news, whereas in countries such as Brazil, Turkey, US and Vietnam, that percentage is almost 40 or over.
The OnePlus 5
users will get to test the latest Android version on their Oxygen OS and it is nothing
less than a great
news for them.
As TechCrunch reported when
news of that experiment first broke, to impact users» moods, Facebook showed them less positive posts in their News F
news of that experiment first broke, to impact
users» moods, Facebook showed them
less positive posts in their
News F
News Feed.
Facebook Inc.said it's making major changes to its flagship social network, shifting
users»
news feeds back toward posts from friends and family and away from businesses and media outlets — a transition that is likely to mean people spend
less time on the site.
The best
news to come out of this announcement is that
users who enjoy phones with smaller displays won't be penalized with
lesser specs.
Like
less secure of the two facial biometric features offered on the Galaxy S8, face unlock works remarkably well, and quickly, and the good
news for V30
users is that it does so when the screen is off.
Though Facebook has committed to fixing the
news feed in a way that
users end up seeing more posts from friends and
less from publishers, the company is still trying to improve its relationship with
news items.
Good
news for T - Mobile customers planning on getting the new Apple Watch Series 3:
less than a day after revealing that the new LTE - enabled smartwatch would be limited to 3G speeds on its network, T - Mobile has reversed its stance and says
users will get full 4G LTE data speeds.
Facebook is choosing to fight fake
news by showing
less news in general as the platform tweaks the
news feed for
users» «well being,» though a push for more local
news is also part of the changes.