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Mark Zuckerberg gave new insights about how he sees Facebook\u2019s role in informing the world today during a Live video<\/a> one-on-one year-end chat with COO Sheryl Sandberg. Facebook\u2019s CEO also lent support to employees trying to fight fake news today, though reports indicated some employees were dissatisfied by his initially tepid response to the issue.<\/p>\n \u201cFacebook is a new kind of platform. It\u2019s not a traditional technology company,\u201d he said today, mirroring his exact words from last week<\/a> when Facebook launched product updates and partnerships with outside fact-checkers to fight fake news<\/a>. But then he went a step further, now saying \u201cIt\u2019s not a traditional media company. You know, we build technology and we feel responsible for how it\u2019s used.\u201d<\/p>\n That implies Zuckerberg does in fact see Facebook as some kind of media company, just not like the old ones that created the content themselves.<\/p>\n Looking closer at the Facebook product compared to the newsroom of a media company, you could see the users as the reporters creating the stories, while the News Feed algorithm acts as the editor, deciding which stories to run and how prominently. Meanwhile, Facebook\u2019s leaders who write the community standards and content policies also act as editors, vetoing or allowing controversial content like reports of police shootings or nude historical photographs.<\/p>\n Facebook writes the code that applies these algorithms and policies like a technology company, but it also makes editorial decisions about what to prioritize and permit, like the editor of a media company.<\/p>\n Later in the talk, he notes that \u201creflecting on 2016, this is just something that I\u2019m proud that people in this company take so seriously,\u201d referring to fake news. But immediately after the election, Zuckerberg was reluctant to admit fake news was a massive problem warranting urgent attention.<\/p>\n That prompted a \u201crenegade task force\u201d of employees to assemble and begin meeting in secret, BuzzFeed\u2019s Sheera Frenkel reported<\/a> on November 14th. By November 18th, Zuckerberg had changed his tone<\/a>, discussing fake news as a more serious threat, and outlining six ways Facebook would fight it, several of which launched<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n Now Zuckerberg is commending his team for taking the issue \u201csuper seriously,\u201d displaying a wise course correction that could lead Facebook to use the full extent of its power to fight disinformation.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a transcript of the segment of today\u2019s Facebook Live broadcast where Zuckerberg discussed fake news (emphasis mine):<\/em><\/p>\n If you look across the world it\u2019s been a really tough year. There\u2019s just been a lot of change, regardless of which side of it you\u2019re on. If you\u2019re pushing a new movement and that succeeded in the political movements in the US or in Europe or in parts of Asia, even if you were on the side of that that was pushing for that, this is big change and that\u2019s an important thing for the world.<\/p>\n And I think that, you know, when we think about what Facebook is doing in trying to give people a voice, one of the things that we are spending a lot of time reflecting on this year and I think going forward is that we have a big responsibility to make sure that these tools are used to create the most benefit for people around the world. And, you know, Facebook is a new kind of platform. It\u2019s not a traditional technology company. It\u2019s not a traditional media company.<\/strong> You know, we build technology and we feel responsible for how it\u2019s used. We don\u2019t write the news that people read on the platform. 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