Windows 10: Helping Ensure News on Facebook Is From Trusted Sources

Last year, we worked hard to reduce fake news and clickbait, and to destroy the economic incentives for spammers to generate these articles in the first place. But there is more we can do. In 2018, we will prioritize:

• News from publications that the community rates as trustworthy
• News that people find informative
• News that is relevant to people’s local community

To be clear, you can still decide which stories appear at the top of News Feed with our See First feature.

Trusted Sources
Starting next week, we will begin tests in the first area: to prioritize news from publications that the community rates as trustworthy.

How? We surveyed a diverse and representative sample of people using Facebook across the US to gauge their familiarity with, and trust in, various different sources of news. This data will help to inform ranking in News Feed.

We’ll start with the US and plan to roll this out internationally in the future.

Informative Content
When we rank and make improvements to News Feed, we rely on a set of core values. These values — which we’ve been using for years — guide our thinking and help us keep the central experience of News Feed intact as it evolves. One of our News Feed values is that the stories in your feed should be informative.

For informative sources, we will continue to improve on the work we first announced in August 2016, where we began asking people to rank the informativeness of updates in their feed on a scale of one to five.

We’re evaluating ways to expand this work to more areas this year.

Local News
Finally, people want more local news on Facebook. As we announced this month, we’re making it easier for people to see local news and information in a dedicated section. We’ll continue to work on ways to show more local news that is relevant to where people live.

What This Means for Publishers
We’ll be working on these efforts for the rest of the year. For the first change in the US next week, publications deemed trustworthy by people using Facebook may see an increase in their distribution. Publications that do not score highly as trusted by the community may see a decrease.

These changes will be part of the many signals that go into News Feed ranking. For more information about ranking more generally see our Publisher Guidelines.


Source: News Feed FYI: Helping Ensure News on Facebook Is From Trusted Sources | Facebook Newsroom

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In Win 10, where can I find the "limit CPU usage during scan to x%" setting for McAfee Virus Scan?

Interesting - thanks again for a new source of help! McAfee is soooo hard to work with - or get help from - that I may just take Greg's suggestion to yank it and trust Defender!

 

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Trust the world's most experienced troubleshooters to answer the question of which source to trust: you go with the mainstream news source, not the fringe. Bloomberg is as mainstream as you can get.