Facebook vs Journalism

on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates

while studying at Harvard University.

the world.
2.7 billion Facebook users in 2018 in the world
According

to Yandex.Radar data for 2018, Facebook is the fourth most popular social network in Russia with a monthly audience of 53.5 million people

before the reader got to the publication’s website through the

main page or a search engine, now this happens through the news feed on Facebook after someone shared a link to the article. Researchers concluded that the Facebook algorithm shows a distorted picture, but the Facebook team is not to blame - the users themselves are the ones who prefer news that coincides with their opinion. Each time a person opens a link, he promotes the dissemination of this information. Facebook's algorithms also take this into account and in the future seek to show you more such news.
The pursuit of clicks forces the media to publish articles with increasingly vivid and loud, sometimes very tense, headlines, the so-called clickbates.

from social networks.
The US presidential election raised serious questions about

the dissemination of false information, especially through Facebook.
According to Parse.ly, almost half of all referrals to media sites come from Facebook.
The company has entered into $ 50 million contracts with news companies and celebrities so that the latter regularly post live broadcasts on Facebook Live.

journalism. In 2010, the company established the position of Manager

for Journalism Programs.

“news” media in Facebook and VK in Russia is most

attractive to users. The audience of the media communities both on Facebook and VK today has the highest engagement index, which means that the practice of these media can be called the most successful.