Facebook will elevate ‘trusted’ news outlets after surveying U.S. users

Facebook announced on Friday that news isn’t disappearing from your News Feed, but the social network is placing quite the heavy hand on what it decides to show you.

The social network will begin incorporating user feedback on which news outlets should be trusted, a change that could be even more important due to the company’s recent move to downgrade how much publisher content ends up in users’ News Feeds.

It’s a dramatic shift for Facebook, which has generally shied away from making judgement calls on the quality of content in lieu of letting users decide what they want to see.  Read more…

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