Monday 27 March 2017

Weekly Stories: Facebook hires TV journalist Campbell Brown as media liaison after fake news fallout

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/06/facebook-hires-campbell-brown-media-partnerships

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Campbell Brown has been hired to try and resolve the issue that Facebook has had to issue of fake news. She has had experience with the newsroom which she will be using to try and control the news relations area of the news department so that Facebook can then try and make sure that the issue with fake news can be resolved.

  • Facebook sucked more than $1bn from the newspaper industry.
  • News organisations increasingly rely on Facebook, which has 1.79 billion users, as a distribution channel.
In my opinion, I think that this is a great move for Facebook as they now have a TV vet to try and make sure that news is truthful which should hopefully be able to try and make sure that the audience isn't as decieved as they normally would be with click-bait articles.

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