As a response to the spread of false news on its platform, Facebook has released a News tab. This tab will be rolling out throughout the U.S. to all Facebook users.
Facebook has its own criteria for news articles to make it onto the News tab: "...be in our News Page Index, which we developed in collaboration with the industry to identify news content. They also need to abide by Facebook’s Publisher Guidelines, these include a range of integrity signals in determining product eligibility, including misinformation - as identified based on third-party fact checkers - community standards violations (e.g., hate speech), clickbait, engagement bait and others."
These news pages that aim to make it onto Facebook’s News tab need to be verified by Facebook. Facebook will have its own criteria in order to meet all of Facebook’s qualifications.
Facebook users will be allowed to link paid subscriptions to news outlets such as the New York Times.
How will you use this new Facebook feature?