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21 Feb 17Robert Best
Lip service to the crucial function of the Fourth Estate is not enough to sustain it. It’s not that Mark Zuckerberg set out to dismantle the news business when he founded Facebook 13 years ago. Yet news organizations are perhaps the biggest casualty…
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David Buen Abad
"Facebook is building a global newsroom run by robot editors and its own readers.”
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20 Feb 17
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mathew lowry
Zuckerberg uses abstract language in his memo—he wants Facebook to develop “the social infrastructure for community,” he writes—but what he’s really describing is building a media company with classic journalistic goals... “for keeping us safe, for informing us, for civic engagement, and for inclusion of all.”,,,<br />an assumption that news... will continue to feed into Facebook’s system at little to no cost to Facebook... Facebook is much better at community building in the digital age than news organizations are... Facebook is building a global newsroom run by robot editors and its own readers.
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85 percent of all online advertising revenue is funneled to either Facebook or Google—leaving a paltry 15 percent for news organizations to fight over
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substantial drop-off in civic engagement in both Seattle and Denver from 2008 to 2009, after both cities saw the closure of longstanding daily newspapers.
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The most cynical way to describe this set-up is to say that Facebook is asking its users to act as unpaid publishers and curators of content—posting baby photos, Facebook Live broadcasts from newsworthy events, and links to news stories by publications desperate for Facebook traffic—and now also to act as unpaid editors, volunteering to teach Facebook’s algorithmic editors how and when to surface the content Facebook does not pay for.
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19 Feb 17
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Facebook ya tiene el dinero. La compañía es absolutamente dominante en el ámbito de la publicidad digital. Se anotó $ 8.8 mil millones en ingresos último cuarto-más de $ 7 millones de los cuales provino de las ventas de anuncios para móviles. Un analista dijo a The New York Times el año pasado que el 85 por ciento de todos los ingresos de publicidad online se canaliza a cualquiera de Facebook o Google, dejando un magro 15 por ciento para las organizaciones de noticias que luchar.
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jose murilo
The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism
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Mark Brian
The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism http://ift.tt/2lr8aEB
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85 percent of all online advertising revenue is funneled to either Facebook or Google—leaving a paltry 15 percent for news organizations to fight over.
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Now, Zuckerberg is making it clear that he wants Facebook to take over many of the actual functions—not just ad dollars—that traditional news organizations once had.
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Zuckerberg uses abstract language in his memo—he wants Facebook to develop “the social infrastructure for community,” he writes—but what he’s really describing is building a media company with classic journalistic goals: The Facebook of the future, he writes, will be “for keeping us safe, for informing us, for civic engagement, and for inclusion of all.”
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In the past, the deaths of news organizations have jeopardized the prospect of a safe, well-informed, civically-engaged community
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One 2014 paper found a substantial drop-off in civic engagement in both Seattle and Denver from 2008 to 2009, after both cities saw the closure of longstanding daily newspapers
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The problem is that Zuckerberg lays out concrete ideas about how to build community on Facebook, how to encourage civic engagement, and how to improve the quality and inclusiveness of discourse—but he bakes in an assumption that news, which has always been subsidized by the advertising dollars his company now commands, will continue to feed into Facebook’s system at little to no cost to Facebook
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In some ways, Zuckerberg is building a news organization without journalists. The uncomfortable truth for journalists, though, is that Facebook is much better at community building in the digital age than news organizations are.
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Last quarter, Facebook counted nearly 1.9 billion monthly active users.
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for context: The Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun claims that its circulation of 9 million copies daily makes it the largest in the world
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In the United States, the combined daily prime time average viewership for CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC was 3.1 million people in 2015,
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The New York Times had about 1.6 million digital subscribers as of last fall.
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you can see how Zuckerberg is continuing to push Facebook’s hands-off approach to editorial responsibility. Facebook is outsourcing its decision-making power about what’s in your News Feed. Instead of the way a newspaper editor decides what’s on the front page, the user will decide.
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“For those who don’t make a decision, the default will be whatever the majority of people in your region selected, like a referendum,” Zuckerberg wrote. Which makes some sense. There are all kinds of issues with an American company imposing its cultural values uniformly on 1.9 billion individuals all over the world.
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Facebook is asking its users to act as unpaid publishers and curators of content
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and now also to act as unpaid editors, volunteering to teach Facebook’s algorithmic editors how and when to surface the content Facebook does not pay for.
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In other words, Facebook is building a global newsroom run by robot editors and its own readers.
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he must also realize that what he’s building is a grave threat to journalism
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Lip service to the crucial function of the Fourth Estate is not enough to sustain it. All of this is the news industry’s problem; not Zuckerberg’s. But it’s also a problem for anyone who believes in and relies on quality journalism to make sense of the world.
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Zuckerberg doesn’t want Facebook to kill journalism as we know it. He really, really doesn’t. But that doesn’t mean he won’t.
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18 Feb 17Charlotte-Anne Lucas
In the Atlantic @AdrienneLaF says Facebook is building a global news org -- without journalists: https://t.co/49ymnVlbnc
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Thomas Pleil
The Zuckerberg Manifesto - a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism http://bit.ly/2lUMBNi by @TheAtlantic http://pic.twitter.com/EKBjalitIU
— Richard Gutjahr (@gutjahr) February 18, 2017
The Zuckerberg Manifesto - a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism https://t.co/xJPBHDqJ2p by @TheAtlantic https://t.co/EKBjalitIU -
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It notched $8.8 billion in revenue last quarter—more than $7 billion of which came from mobile-ad sales. One analyst told The New York Times last year that 85 percent of all online advertising revenue is funneled to either Facebook or Google—leaving a paltry 15 percent for news organizations to fight over.
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In some ways, Zuckerberg is building a news organization without journalists. The uncomfortable truth for journalists, though, is that Facebook is much better at community building in the digital age than news organizations are.
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users will be asked to help shape the content they see by adjusting personal settings that help train Facebook’s algorithms.
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For those who don’t make a decision, the default will be whatever the majority of people in your region selected, like a referendum,”
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In other words, Facebook is building a global newsroom run by robot editors and its own readers.
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