Facebook will launch its new human-curated service for promoting news articles at an event Friday, a company spokesperson told POLITICO today.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased the rollout of the "News Tab" feature at a House Financial Services Committee hearing, his first testimony on Capitol Hill since last year.“Later in this week we actually have a big announcement coming up on launching a big initiative around news and journalism where we’re partnering with a lot of folks to build a new product that’s supporting high-quality journalism,” Zuckerberg said.
“I think that there’s an opportunity within Facebook and our services to build a dedicated surface tab [for] people who really want to see high-quality curated news, not just social content,” Zuckerberg said at today's hearing. The session, called to address Facebook’s plans for a new cryptocurrency, veered into other topics, including Facebook’s handling of political speech and its impact on journalism.
_whitneywebb The last thing anyone needs is another FB 'service.'
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I’m clearing up some matters there and deleting my account within the week.
_whitneywebb 'launching big initiative around news and journalism where we’re partnering with a lot of folks to build a new product that’s supporting high-quality journalism'😂🤣 Why more redundancy, already have cnn, msnbc, cbs, abc, Faux, to propagandize the US public! More Zionist B.S.!
Well this should really be the final nail in the fb coffin