Facebook Head of News: ‘Not All News is Created Equal’
Speaking at the Recode Media Conference, Facebook’s Head of News stated that Facebook will begin defining “quality news” and said that “not all news is created equal.”
Speaking at the Recode Media Conference, Facebook’s Head of News stated that Facebook will begin defining “quality news” and said that “not all news is created equal.”
The left blamed Facebook for allowing users to share “fake news” — or merely news unfavorable to Hillary Clinton. Now, Facebook is moving to rehabilitate its image by launching “The Facebook Journalism Project.”
Facebook has hired former NBC News and CNN anchor Campbell Brown as the head of its news partnership team, as it steps up its efforts to combat the hysteria over “fake news.”
The education reform website founded by former CNN anchor Campbell Brown is supporting Donald Trump’s education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos with the disclaimer that DeVos’ family foundation provides funding for the site.
During a recent education summit moderated by Campbell Brown – who founded The Seventy Four, a non-profit website covering news about education reform – GOP presidential candidates Govs. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), Scott Walker (R-WI) and Chris Christie (R-NJ) shut down Brown’s argumentative questions that were pro-Common Core.
Six Republican presidential contenders met Wednesday in early-voting state New Hampshire to discuss education issues, including the hotly debated Common Core standards initiative.
Launched on Monday, a press release about Campbell Brown’s news site highlights initial stories about a search-and-rescue pilot for the Coast Guard who became a second-grade teacher at a charter school in Newark, NJ; a column about the necessity of addressing the relationship between educational inequality and income inequality; and an investigative piece that focuses on “the forces and scare tactics behind the opt-out movement” in Montclair, New Jersey.
Friday on Bloomberg TV’s “With All Due Respect,” filling in for John Heilemann, Campbell Brown said when Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accused Republicans of intentionally attempting to disenfranchise voters based on race, age and poverty level, her speech writers did “not
Former CNN anchor-turned education reform expert Campbell Brown recently attacked opponents of the Common Core standards and potential GOP presidential candidates who have flip-flopped on their views of the initiative. In a Washington Post column over the weekend, the founder