Facebook in the News
Facebook in the News
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2018
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Matt Carlson
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2016年5月，Gizmodo网站上出现了两篇关于Facebook热门话题新闻功能的报道，第一篇揭露了人类策展人秘密选择新闻的工作，第二篇指责某些策展人审查保守派的声音。这些爆料引发了公众的强烈抗议，主要是来自保守派对可能存在的偏见感到不安，以及批评Facebook对新闻的保密性和随意性的记者。本研究探讨回应争议的元新闻话语-谈论新闻，试图界定适当的做法和合法的新闻形式。它确定了Facebook在更大的新闻生态系统中的作用的公开表达的根本分歧。Facebook对这一争议的反应是，将新闻作为一种内容形式，与网站上的其他内容一样，应该个性化，根据用户参与的形式进行组织，并且不受社交媒体网站的编辑控制。相比之下，记者将新闻定位为有目的地选择和分享，而将Facebook定位为新闻生态系统中的积极参与者，因此对加强公共责任的机构承诺负有责任。
In May 2016, two stories on Facebook’s Trending Topics news feature appeared on the site Gizmodo, the first exposing the human curators working surreptitiously to select news and the second containing accusations that certain curators censored conservative voices. These revelations led to public outcry, mostly from conservatives upset at possible bias and journalists critical of Facebook for its largely secretive and haphazard approach to news. This study examines the response to the controversy as metajournalistic discourse—talk about news that seeks to define appropriate practices and legitimate news forms. It identifies a fundamental divergence in the public articulation of Facebook’s role in the larger news ecosystem. Facebook reacted to the controversy by formulating an approach to news as a form of content that, like other content on the site, should be personalized, organized according to popularity in the form of user engagement, and free of editorial control from the social media site. By contrast, journalists positioned news as purposively selected and shared while placing Facebook as an active participant within the news ecosystem and therefore beholden to an enhanced institutional commitment to public responsibility.