Excellent article from San Jose's freekly (free weekly rag).
So much FakeNews comes from folks reading the headline and no informed discussion. The comment that Palo Alto has 3 daily free papers while most places struggle to support even one marginal newspaper hit home! Most folks don't think of Facebook as a media giant - but from reading this article it clearly is. They figured out how to rip off other folks content while taking none of the journalistic ethics in refuting fake news.
Also very timely article for reallyread.it - If facebook used ReallyRead.It before letting folks make comments on news articles a lot of these problems would go away!!
If you can't land Facebook, I hope you'll look at a word press and medium rr plugin versions for those authors that do care about their work. This would allow blog writers to easily use reallread.it as their commenting platform and would act as a built in spam filter from fake news bots.
The article drills down on Facebook's huge fake news problem and the history behind it. I had forgotten they had gotten rid of their human reviewers. Its clear that Facebook doesn't want to own news by either paying for real journalism or to spend any money keeping fake stories off its platform. In the "old" days the government required that channels carry the money losing NEWS shows as part of their agreement for using public airwaves. They made most of their $ off syndicated shows and they subsidized NEWS for the awards and the public good of preferring CBS vs NBC vs ABC. Today coporate giants own media and have conflicting interest in covering the news. Amazon's Jeff Bezos owns Washington Post. Bloomberg'a Business week is owned by Michael Bloomberg NYC exMayor. Murdoch owns Fox News. Jack Dorsey's Twitter has his champion Trump, but the real credit for Trump winning the election goes to FaceBook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the stealing of Harvard dorm girl photos to start FaceMash breaking all kinds of privacy rules.
Great article, thanks for sharing! Well written with lots of links to interesting polls and other research data on the topic.
If you can't land Facebook, I hope you'll look at a word press and medium rr plugin versions for those authors that do care about their work.
You read our minds! We're actively working on an embedable reallyread.it comments section for publishers. The best part is that if publishers are using the embed then readers won't even need to have the extension installed -- the code that tracks the reading can be included in the embed so that anyone can really read and comment.
As far as 3rd party integration goes we're looking at starting with reddit. There are a lot of awesome subreddits that are focused on reading long form articles and not commenting or sharing unless you've actually done the reading. I'm hoping that we can make it easy for reddit users to "link" their reddit and reallyread.it accounts and provide subreddits with an automod that can flair comments from users that have really read the article using our extension.
Personally I think the Facebook case is just hopeless. As the author of the article pointed out the incentives just aren't structured in a way that encourages good journalism and Facebook faces an impossible task in trying to moderate the fire hose of content that is making its way into the news feeds of users. I deleted my Facebook account back in 2006 because I felt like it was a destructive timesink. I think it was a good decision on their part to get out of the news business and although it will hurt some publishers in the short term it was just encouraging them to churn out clickbait as fast as they could in a sad race to the bottom of journalistic integrity.
Good read. Thank you for sharing!
Excellent article from San Jose's freekly (free weekly rag).
So much FakeNews comes from folks reading the headline and no informed discussion. The comment that Palo Alto has 3 daily free papers while most places struggle to support even one marginal newspaper hit home! Most folks don't think of Facebook as a media giant - but from reading this article it clearly is. They figured out how to rip off other folks content while taking none of the journalistic ethics in refuting fake news.
Also very timely article for reallyread.it - If facebook used ReallyRead.It before letting folks make comments on news articles a lot of these problems would go away!!
If you can't land Facebook, I hope you'll look at a word press and medium rr plugin versions for those authors that do care about their work. This would allow blog writers to easily use reallread.it as their commenting platform and would act as a built in spam filter from fake news bots.
The article drills down on Facebook's huge fake news problem and the history behind it. I had forgotten they had gotten rid of their human reviewers. Its clear that Facebook doesn't want to own news by either paying for real journalism or to spend any money keeping fake stories off its platform. In the "old" days the government required that channels carry the money losing NEWS shows as part of their agreement for using public airwaves. They made most of their $ off syndicated shows and they subsidized NEWS for the awards and the public good of preferring CBS vs NBC vs ABC. Today coporate giants own media and have conflicting interest in covering the news. Amazon's Jeff Bezos owns Washington Post. Bloomberg'a Business week is owned by Michael Bloomberg NYC exMayor. Murdoch owns Fox News. Jack Dorsey's Twitter has his champion Trump, but the real credit for Trump winning the election goes to FaceBook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the stealing of Harvard dorm girl photos to start FaceMash breaking all kinds of privacy rules.
Great article, thanks for sharing! Well written with lots of links to interesting polls and other research data on the topic.
You read our minds! We're actively working on an embedable reallyread.it comments section for publishers. The best part is that if publishers are using the embed then readers won't even need to have the extension installed -- the code that tracks the reading can be included in the embed so that anyone can really read and comment.
As far as 3rd party integration goes we're looking at starting with reddit. There are a lot of awesome subreddits that are focused on reading long form articles and not commenting or sharing unless you've actually done the reading. I'm hoping that we can make it easy for reddit users to "link" their reddit and reallyread.it accounts and provide subreddits with an automod that can flair comments from users that have really read the article using our extension.
Personally I think the Facebook case is just hopeless. As the author of the article pointed out the incentives just aren't structured in a way that encourages good journalism and Facebook faces an impossible task in trying to moderate the fire hose of content that is making its way into the news feeds of users. I deleted my Facebook account back in 2006 because I felt like it was a destructive timesink. I think it was a good decision on their part to get out of the news business and although it will hurt some publishers in the short term it was just encouraging them to churn out clickbait as fast as they could in a sad race to the bottom of journalistic integrity.