Of course Facebook doesn't "edit" NewsFeed in the same way that a newspaper editor once edited the front page. It's a very different way. That's why we're asking about it!
The key decision Rolling Stone made was made at the beginning: to settle on a narrative — indifference to campus rape — and then go off in search of the story that would work just right for that narrative.
Claims that climate science is a hoax, that human action is not a factor: these are not defensible positions in a normal debate. They are ways of saying — and saying to the press — hey, the evidence doesn’t matter.
There are benefits to operating a news site that not only publishes journalism you can trust, but extends trust production all the way through the start-up “stack.”
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