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• @juddlegum Judd Legum on x

  Facebook's new section of “trusted” news sources will include Breitbart, a website that featured a section on “black crime” and laundered white nationalist talking points https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @parkermolloy Parker Molloy on x

  Breitbart is included in this list of “trusted” publishers. It's a site that absolutely does not adhere to the guidelines, and yet https://www.bloomberg.com/... pic.twitter.com/SdE3H9zrCI

• @edmundlee Edmund Lee on x

  Facebook will pay publishers, including @nytimes What's more notable is this rare mea culpa from Zuckerberg: “We feel acute responsibility because there's obviously an awareness that the internet has disrupted the news industry business model,” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @lauramandaro Laura Mandaro on x

  A drop in the bucket for Facebook but roughly the total U.S. daily newspaper circulation, which has been falling, according to Pew: Mark Zuckerberg Predicts 30 Million People Will Want Facebook News via @michaelfnunez https://www.forbes.com/...

• @mollywood Molly Wood on x

  Ahaha ... oh no, he didn't. He did!? He did. I especially love how he stole Elizabeth Warren's line. “We have a plan to help fix that.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @marshablackburn Sen. Marsha Blackburn on x

  Be very wary...sounds like just another way for Facebook to takeover every aspect of our lives and the news we read. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @brosandprose Cruella D'awson on x

  Won't this be a fun and harmless experiment!! https://twitter.com/...

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  This is a) correct, b) encouraging, c) very, shall we say, interesting given how Facebook has treated journalists who cover the company in the past. https://twitter.com/...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  Facebook News is a vegetable stand parked in a side corridor of Willy Wonka's factory. https://onezero.medium.com/...

• @mattbinder Matt Binder on x

  Zuckerberg deciding to partner with News Corp for this event on the day of the launch of a major Facebook news product really says it all. they reminisced on time spent with Rupert Murdoch and Mark defended the inclusion of Breitbart as a “high quality journalism” partner

• @mollymckew Molly McKew on x

  Honest question. Do we think Facebook paying publishers to use their context on Facebook news is going to result in less transparent coverage of Facebook? I get this is a gesture toward lost ad revenue, but ... https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @halsinger Hal Singer on x

  A positive development on the surface, but the massive power imbalance ensures that news organizations, bargaining *individually* with Facebook, will not capture anything close to their marginal revenue product or forgone advertising revenues. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @letsgomathias Christopher Mathias on x

  In 2016, Steve Bannon called Breitbart a “platform for the alt-right.” In 2017, @Bernstein published a blockbuster piece on how Breitbart was smuggling white nationalism into the mainstream. Now @facebook is set to list Breitbart as a “trusted” news source https://twitter.com/...

• @lindsay_schnell Lindsay Schnell on x

  is this also not gonna be fact checked by a legit third party? https://twitter.com/...

• @athenae Allison Hantschel on x

  “Facebook stole all the news we gave them in a desperate attempt to reach the young people who haven't used this platform in 10 years, and now we have no money to deliver the paper to people who have been customers for 6 decades.” — media company execs, 6 months from now. https:/…

• @pkafka Peter Kafka on x

  One between the lines note: Regular Facebook newsfeed is Trump Trump and more Trump. New Facebook News, not so much. https://twitter.com/...

• @pkafka Peter Kafka on x

  “We want to set a different standard here, that's not a mix of news that your friends and family want to share.” https://twitter.com/...

• @notdetails Joeltergeist on x

  siri, show me the most tone deaf thing https://twitter.com/...

• @gerryfsmith Gerry Smith on x

  Facebook is finally giving some publishers what they want: $$. But how many people will really visit a separate tab to get news? Story w/ @sarahfrier https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @mathewi Mathew Ingram on x

  Facebook is clearly trying to help the media by giving them lots of untruthful political ads to write about. Thanks Mark! https://twitter.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Ah yet another payoff attempt! https://www.nytimes.com/... via @NYTimes

• @bgrueskin Bill Grueskin on x

  Facebook often says it shouldn't be treated like a publisher. With this deal, Facebook will be paying for news, curating news, making editorial judgments around news and ... publishing news. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @asmith83 Adam Smith on x

  Congrats to Daily Wire and Diamond and Silk! https://twitter.com/...

• @zachleat Zach Leatherman on x

  For the third time in my thirteen year Twitter existance, I will post a link to TechCrunch (this article is *good*): “Meet users where they are, but pull them back to where you live.” https://techcrunch.com/... on the inevitable future calamity that will be Facebook News.

• @ceciliakang Cecilia Kang on x

  “We feel acute responsibility because there's obviously an awareness that the internet has disrupted the news industry business model,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, said in an interview. https://www.nytimes.com/... via @mikeisaac @marctracey

• @markscott82 Mark Scott on x

  Still not a media organization. Nope, not one bit. Who would think of such a thing?! https://newsroom.fb.com/...

• @cjamcmahon Ciarn Mc Mahon on x

  This comes less than a fortnight after an Oireachtas committee heard several social media corps deny that they were publishers with editorial control https://twitter.com/...

• @mattnavarra Matt Navarra on x

  I concur with @CaseyNewton's assessment here about the potential of Facebook's News tab https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  Facebook News is here. But will an audience show up for it? https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...