Facebook on Tuesday plans to create a news tab, which will be edited by seasoned journalists, away from the long practice of directing the algorithm to user experience.
A human team will select relevant, reliable breaking and top news stories.
Other sections of the tab will rely on algorithms to determine user interests based on "signals" such as following pages, interacting with online news or subscriptions in publishing.
"Our goal with the News tab is to provide a personalized, highly relevant experience for people," Campbell Brown, Facebook's lead partner, told AFP.
"For the top news section of the tab, we're bringing together a small group of journalists to make sure we get the right story."
However, according to Brown, most of the stories people see will be determined by the software.
This tab will be separate from Facebook's trademark news feed that displays updates and content from people's friends.
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Facebook Watch already lets users experience paid news shows on social networks and other on-demand online content.
California-based Facebook has taken the initiative to support or strengthen journalism in recent years as social media has been under intense pressure to avoid becoming a tool for spreading misinformation.
"Working with the news industry to get the News tab on Facebook earlier this year is our goal and focus," Brown said in a tweet earlier this month.
"It's still the first day but we are getting great peer feedback on the product. I believe we can deliver a better news experience to people on Facebook. "
Facebook has reported that some publishers will pay to license the news content for this tab.
Earlier this year, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he wanted to "make sure that as much as we can, we're funding as much journalism as possible."
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