We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
Wired / Nicholas Thompson and Fred Vogelstein
/ Feb 12, 2018“Soon Campbell Brown was put in charge of something called the Facebook Journalism Project. ‘We spun it up over the holidays, essentially,’ says one person involved in discussions about the project. The aim was to demonstrate that Facebook was thinking hard about its role in the future of journalism. But sheer anxiety was also part of the motivation. ‘After the election, because Trump won, the media put a ton of attention on fake news and just started hammering us. People started panicking and getting afraid that regulation was coming.’” —
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distributed content,
Facebook,
Fake news,
Mark Zuckerberg,
misinformation,
platforms
