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The Evolving Role of News on Twitter and Facebook

33 点作者 jeo1234超过 9 年前

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brc超过 9 年前
While I don&#x27;t argue with the veracity of the information here, I do despair at what it says.<p>For a start, I doubt the Twitter news feature will inject much-needed editorial quality into the unfiltered blast of rumours, half truths and lies that surround most current news events on Twitter. This is even more so if there is a political nature to the news.<p>But the deeper question here is &#x27;why are people so addicted to news&#x27;?<p>There is a subset of people - obviously journalists included - who think that if they don&#x27;t know every breaking event, somehow they are uninformed, ignorant, backward, all the rest of the insults.<p>But the reality of the situation is that the 24 hour news firehose - which Twitter and Facebook are jostling to be a part of - is really just the same series of flashing lights and distractions used to keep Las Vegas patrons inside the building.<p>Most news doesn&#x27;t matter. Most breaking news doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>If something is important, you&#x27;ll find out. Allowing a breaking-news junkie to inform you brightens their day.<p>More important is that people get into a low information diet. There are a lot of people talking about how much sugar is consumed these days - junk calories best taken in small doses. Most news is like sugar - junk information best take in small doses.<p>I have mostly switched Twitter off these days. I am ruthless at excluding news (and especially political news) from my Facebook feed - call me old fashioned, but I&#x27;m really only interested in what my friends are up to. I am disinclined to consume their heart-rendering stories of cats up trees, jibes at their political hate-figure or tongue-baths of their political love-figure. None of that helps me to be happier or more productive.<p>News : like sugar for the brain.
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aunebrian超过 9 年前
The algorithms that drive what news we see on Twitter and Facebook (and Google for that matter) don&#x27;t take into account the quality of the information we&#x27;re confronted with. They&#x27;re more based on popularity than anything else.<p>We&#x27;re working on a platform (inquary.com) that will allow users to rate, research, and assess news and other information items based upon their Information Quality scores, specifically their accuracy, trustworthiness, comprehensiveness, and objectivity.<p>I&#x27;m always looking for feedback. If you have comments about what you&#x27;d like to see from such a platform, I&#x27;d love to hear from you here or at inquary.com.<p>For the record, I won&#x27;t bore people with too much information here but there is a lot of data about how much people want accurate, objective news, as well as how surprisingly capable the public, in the aggregate, is at assessing such things.<p>Happy to talk more if people are interested.
universe520超过 9 年前
Weird that the article didn&#x27;t mention the change to the FB algorithm for the news feed this year. That had a major impact on news orgs.