Accuracy in Media

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told media executives that Facebook is in the process of creating a system to rank news organizations by trustworthiness and will access user surveys to label whether news sources are “broadly trusted.” According to news reports about the meeting, news organizations scoring higher in user trust rankings will receive preferential […]

Veteran NBC anchor Tom Brokaw chided senators Wednesday for asking a series of questions to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exposed their lack of understanding of the platform and social media as a whole. Zuckerberg’s appearance demonstrated most Senators think the digital age means you can still count with your fingers — Tom Brokaw (@tombrokaw) […]

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, is under serious scrutiny among reports that a company used Facebook users’ data in there 2016 presidential campaign cycle. Cambridge Analytica, which is an international company with offices in London, United Kingdom and in the United States, allegedly used data from Facebook to influence users leading up to […]

Social media juggernaut Facebook, which came under fire last month after a report in the tech blog Gizmodo said that curators of the company’s “trending topics” feature “routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers,” announced that it will train employees to identify and check their political bias. The announcement was made by Chief Operating […]

In a lengthy letter to Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch said that the now-changed guidelines for its trending topics section may have favored news coming from mainstream media outlets, and that charges that the social media giant suppressed conservative news couldn’t be substantiated through a Senate investigation: “This guidance may have in […]

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to meet with a group of conservative media figures tomorrow after a report in tech blog Gizmodo reported that the social media juggernaut’s Trending Topics section routinely suppressed conservative news. The group will include Glenn Beck, CNN’s S.E. Cupp, Fox News’ Dana Perino, Mitt Romney’s former digital director Zac […]

Rumor is that he will meet with The Blaze, but other outlets aren’t named just yet. Oh, and the whole ‘we use 3 sources to vet a trending topic’ reason seems flimsy when Facebook officially recognizes the state-run Communist Chinese news agency as a legitimate source in addition to the satirical news site The Onion. […]

WASHINGTON — Facebook, which has been fighting doubters, naysayers and pragmatists since its initial public offering (IPO) hit the market in 2012. Reuters reported that this week, Facebook’s shares surged past the original IPO price. It took almost a year to get past the original IPO price of $38. It broke that level to reach […]