designate Thompson says site’s attempts to rank news outlets sounds like controlled society’Facebook should consider totally removing news from users’ feeds unless it can find a way to avoid low-quality stories clogging up the site,the chief executive of the modern York Times has said.designate Thompson said he was “terrified” by Facebook’s attempts to use algorithms to rank the quality of news outlets, warning that “a machine entirely behind closed doors is going to rank the world’s news sources” and that publications would be ranked at the top only for as long as they remained “in the good books of Facebook”.
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Source: theguardian.com