How Facebook's Upcoming News Tab Will Work
As part of its ongoing efforts to repair its tattered reputation, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has been hard at work developing a dedicated news tab that would feature trusted media outlets. That initiative is designed to mitigate the social networking platform's role in the spread of disinformation across many charged topics by offering users a specific destination for real news.
"We talked about the role quality journalism plays in building informed communities and the principles Facebook should use for building a news tab to surface more high quality news, including the business model and ecosystem to support it," CEO Mark Zuckberg wrote earlier this year, referring to an interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner. At the time, His Zuckness hinted that the social networking behemoth was amenable to paying licensing fees to publisher partners that contribute content to a news tab.
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