Facebook seeks tab to promote ‘high quality news’


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 02 Apr 2019

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 11, 2012, the Facebook "like" button logo with flowers is seen at the entrance of the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California. - As Facebook approaches its 15th anniversary, the social network has made strides toward Mark Zuckerberg's goal of connecting the world. But it has also made some huge missteps that has turned some of its friends into enemies. The online social network founded on February 4, 2004 in Zuckerberg's Harvard University dorm is now in an adolescence with grown-up burdens of being held accountable for its behavior and playing in a world where people can be nasty. (Photo by KIMIHIRO HOSHINO / AFP)

WASHINGTON: Facebook is working on a “news tab” that could be used to financially support “high quality and trustworthy” journalism, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said on April 1. 

Zuckerberg made the comments in a video conversation about the future of technology and society with Mathias Doepfner, chairman of German-based media giant Axel Springer. 

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