Facebook ‘news tab’ seeks to reboot its role with media

Washington: Facebook on Friday began rolling out its dedicated “news tab” with professionally produced content — the latest move by the social network to promote journalism and shed its reputation as a platform for misinformation.
The tab, being tested with some US users, will be separate from a user’s normal feed and include articles from partner news organizations.
The mix of stories in Facebook News will be determined by algorithmic “personalization” based on an user’s preferences and data, and by actual journalists choosing content.
“I’ve been talking to news publishers and journalists for a few years about how we can do more to support high quality journalism on Facebook,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said.
The new tab is “dedicated to high quality news and personalized to your interests,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
The company said users would have “more control over the stories they see, and the ability to explore a wider range of their news interests, directly within the Facebook app.”