Facebook Local News Hosting Could Give Sinclair A Run For Its Money
August 5, 2017
The fact that people rely on social networking websites for news updates rather than news channels was well known, but not well acknowledged, before the 2016 presidential election. Ever since being blamed for the presence of fake news on its feed, the social network seems to have taken cognizance of the potential of news for its functioning — its new “this week in your government” feature is its attempt at providing its users with local news.
The feature, currently in testing, was confirmed by a Facebook representative to Recode on Friday.