News Media Alliance President and CEO David Chavern today called on the major technology platforms, namely Facebook and Google, to take responsibility for the role they play in deciding, via their “secret algorithms,” how and to whom news is distributed, and the subsequent impact of those decisions on civil society.
Given Facebook’s sizable power in driving traffic to news sites, its early 2018 announcement that it was changing how stories are surfaced in the News Feed was a source of concern for many publishers. Following the rollout of these changes, the tracking software NewsWhip used its proprietary technology to quantify the impact of the algorithm changes, which it published in a report in late March 2018.
On Tuesday, April 10 and Wednesday, April 11, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will visit Washington, D.C. to testify before Congress regarding the Cambridge Analytica data breach.
View the Office of Congressman David Cicilline’s Fact Sheet on the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (PDF).
H.R. 5190, the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act
Today Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, introduced the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act of 2018.”
When I was freelancing with VICE News, my editor and I were never in the same place. I worked remotely
Today, the News Media Alliance – representing almost 2,000 news organizations – again called on Congress to allow publishers to negotiate collectively with dominant online platforms, namely Facebook and Google.
“It was a very positive announcement by Campbell Brown on subscriptions through Facebook.”
As we all know, social media is even more polarized — and polarizing — than the rest of American society.
