Facebook Pushes More Local News
I’m certainly not the first person to compare Mark Zuckeberg to a someone riding bare-back on a runaway horse that’s waaaaay too big for him. Perhaps he can slow the steed to a gallop with this latest move. Facebook is now giving users more local news — less news overall — but more from local sources. What really disturbs me though — aside from the fact it took him so long to wake up to the fact his platform is damaging our democracy and dividing our society like no other — is that he has so much control over what our society is exposed to. Still, I applaud the aim of this step. Now maybe his controlling, profit-only driven company can rethink the Messenger App designed for kids under the age of 13. Here’s a link.